Abraham Lincoln and the Structure of Reason by David Hirsch

Author:David Hirsch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: HIS036040
ISBN: eBook ISBN: 9781611210583
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Published: 2010-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

Lincoln always focused on clarifying, clarifying, clarifying—despite any opponent’s best efforts to obfuscate:

He [Judge Douglas] read upon a former occasion, and alludes without reading to-day, to a portion of a speech which I delivered in Chicago. In his quotations from that speech as he has made them upon former occasions, the extracts were taken in such a way, as I suppose, brings them within the definition of what is called garbling—taking portions of a speech which, when taken by themselves, do not present the entire sense of the speaker as expressed at the time. I propose, therefore, out of that same speech, to show how one portion of it which he skipped over (taking an extract before and an extract after) will give a different idea and the true idea I intended to convey.8 (emphasis in original)

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