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“There was a touch of prairie about the fellow.--hans vollmanYes.--roger bevins iiiLike stepping into a summer barn late at night.--hans vollmanOr a musty plains office, where some bright candle sti...”
“DARWINS SACRED CAUSE?Much ink has been dedicated to determining Charles Darwins role in scientific racism. The only way to empirically and scientifically determine his role is to organize the event...”
“My dear Sir.Yours of the 13th. is just received. My engagements are such that I can not, at any very early day, visit Rock-Island, to deliver a lecture, or for any other object.As to the other matt...”
“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both *may* be, and one *must* be, wrong. God cannot be *for* and *against* the same thing at...”
“The democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing when in conflict with another man's right of property...This is a world of compensations; and he would -be- no slave mus...”
“Lincoln, Douglas and their contemporaries struggled to decide what the words all men are created equal really meant. Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln wrangled for 21 hours on seven stages. Th...”
“Abraham Lincoln said, Patents Add Fuel to the Fire of Genius. What the great man did not say is that Too Much Fuel Can Burn the Genius”
“God is constantly talking to us but we can't hear him because we pay too much attention to the noise from the world. Genesis 12:22.”
“When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union’s side, Lincoln’s unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God’s side.”
“Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God’s will.”
“Man’s glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in ‘his goodness,’ for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.”
“There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man who has seen the f...”
“DARWIN’S “SACRED CAUSE”?Much ink has been dedicated to determining Charles Darwin’s role in “scientific racism.” The only way to empirically and scientifically determine his role is to organize the...”
“Lincoln, Douglas and their contemporaries struggled to decide what the words “all men are created equal” really meant. Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln wrangled for 21 hours on seven stages. ...”
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”
