Lincoln's Melancholy by Joshua Wolf Shenk

Author:Joshua Wolf Shenk
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The will of God prevails—In great contests each party claims to act in accordence with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God’s purpose is something different from the purpose of either party—and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect this

After this first passage, the handwriting grows shakier; the words practically tremble with the thoughts they express. First, Lincoln crossed out the last word he had written.

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