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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: Memorial Address Delivered at the Lincoln, Centennial Celebration of the Jewish, Theological Seminary of America
The gutter and exposed to the abuse of the street urchins, who made sport of him. He thereupon thought in his heart, 'i will induce father to come here to show him the humiliation he brings upon himself by his dissipation.' The father came, but the first thing he did was to ask the drunken man for the address of the inn where such good wine was sold. This reminds one strongly of Lincoln's well-known answer to the charge brought against one of his most successful generals that he sometimes drank too much. Lincoln merely asked to know the brand of whisky consumed by him so that he might distribute it among some of the other generals. Lincoln's pleading with his friends and foes that there is no hope for Amer ica to live outside of the Constitution if they cannot any longer live in it (i am unable to locate the passage or to give the exact words) reminded me also when I read it of the following Jewish parable: Once upon a time, a fox was walking by the banks of a river, and he saw the fish swimming from place to place. 'why this unrest?' asked the fox. The fish answered, 'because of the nets Spread out for us by the sons of men.' Thereupon, the fox said, 'would you not prefer to move to the land and I and you will live together, as my ancestors and yours did before us?' The fish answered, 'art thou the one who is spoken of as the sage among the animals? Thou art a.
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