. Abraham Lincoln. ABRAHAM LINCOLN From a photograph made at Springfield soon after his nomination forPresident ABRAHAM LINCOLN BY LORD CHARNWOOD THIRD EDITION. NEW YORKHENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1917 Copyright, 1917 BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY THE QOINN ft BODEN COMPANYRAHWAY. N J. GENERAL EDITORS PREFACE Statesmen—even the greatest—have rarely won thesame unquestioning recognition that falls to the greatwarriors or those supreme in science, art or in their own lifetime and hardly to this day havethe claims to supremacy of our own Oliver Cromwell,William III. and Lord Chatham rested
. Abraham Lincoln. ABRAHAM LINCOLN From a photograph made at Springfield soon after his nomination forPresident ABRAHAM LINCOLN BY LORD CHARNWOOD THIRD EDITION. NEW YORKHENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1917 Copyright, 1917 BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY THE QOINN ft BODEN COMPANYRAHWAY. N J. GENERAL EDITORS PREFACE Statesmen—even the greatest—have rarely won thesame unquestioning recognition that falls to the greatwarriors or those supreme in science, art or in their own lifetime and hardly to this day havethe claims to supremacy of our own Oliver Cromwell,William III. and Lord Chatham rested on so sure afoundation as those of a Marlborough or a Nelson, aNewton, a Milton or a Hogarth. This is only warrior, a man of science, an artist or a poet arejudged in the main by definite achievements, by thevictories they have won over foreign enemies or overignorance and prejudice, by the joy and enlightenmentthey have brought to the consciousness of their ownand succeeding generations. For the statesman thereis no such exact measure of greatness. The greater heis, the less likely is his work to be marked by decisiveachievement which can
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