Wit, Wisdom and Eloquence of Col. R.G. Ingersoll; Including Eloquent Extracts, Witty, Wise, Pungent, and Truthful Sayings, and Oratorical ... to All Classes of Persons and Especi - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1894. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Ingersoll's Eloquent Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln. (Delivered in the Auditorium, Chicago, Feb. 12, 1892.) Ladies And Gentlemen:--Eighty-three years ago to-day two babes were born--one in the woods of Kentucky amid the hardships and poverty of pioneers; one in England, surrounded by wealth and culture. One associated his name with the enfranchisement of labor, with the emancipation of millions, with the salvation of the Republic. He is known to us as Abraham Lincoln. The other broke the chains of superstition and filled the world with intellectual light, and he is known to us as Charles Darwin. Because of these men the nineteenth century is illustrious. Every generation has its heroes, its iconoclasts, its pioneers, its ideals. The people always have been and still are divided, at least into two classes--the many, who with their backs to the sunshine, worship the past; and the few, who keep their faces to the dawn--the many, who are satisfied with the world as it is; the few, who labor and suffer for the future, for those to be, and who seek to rescue the oppressed, to destroy the cruel distinctions of caste, and to civilize mankind. Yet it sometimes happens that the liberator of one age becomes the oppressor of the next. His reputation becomes so great--he becomes so revered and worshipped --that the followers in his name attack the hero who endeavors to take another step in advance. In our country there were for many years two great political parties, and each of these parties had conservatives and extremists. The extremists of the Democratic party were in the rear, and wished to go back; the extremists of the Republican party were in the front, and wished to go forward. The extreme Democrat was willing to destroy the Union for the sake of slavery, and the extreme...
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