Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln: A Memorial Oration
Mr. Lincoln was a self-edncated man. Many of our public men have been seif-educated, and many young men at the present time secure for themselves the ad vantages of our best colleges. Yet self-education in an Eastern State, with its free school system, with its academies in every county, and in almost every town, With its numerous colleges and universities, is certainly a very creditable, but not a very difficult work. But self-education fifty years ago, in a new State of the West, with few schools, and those of the rudest rudi mentary kind; with no academies, no colleges, no libra ries, few books even in the best houses, was a very dif ferent undertaking. How little the boy Lincoln was indebted for education to any helps beyond his own genius and perseverance, is sufficiently shown by the fact that all his school days added together, did not amount to one single year.
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