LINCOLN AND DEMOCRACY.
We ask ourselves if he was the gjiFjf of democracy. And we find ourselyear answering: His peculiar excellenceooulcC have come of no other order of "We ask ourselves anxiously if ddmgff cracy has the unerring instinct to find such men to embody its wishes, or ditt it take him only for a talented rait, splitter—an average man? But we have no certain answer to this_a.nxi6gg questioning. What gives most hope"ij| new confusions and problems, unknaw&b to his day, however, is that the rno'rl clearly his disinteredness and auce "and magnanimity and. huniiliw are revealed, the wider and' deeper. 3B the feeling of admiration and lore fof Lis character. which perhaps assoref us, after all. better than anything of the soundness and nobility of th* ideate of democracy.—John Finloy. ji:
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11669, 8 April 1916, Page 3
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