Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's "Failures" Critiques After the caption Discouraged on this interesting broadside, there is a question mark - sort of a self-analysis reminder. For the purpose of this discussion it might better be placed after the title Lincoln Failures with the implication that possibly the experiences of Lincoln were not so humiliating as indicated. One questions whether or not so much emphasis should be placed on the element of failure which is featured by the compilation of experiences in Lincoln's struggle for advancement. It is very evident that Lincoln himself, did not become depressed by occasional reverses and most cer tainl his friends and political associates who finally se cure his nomination to the presidency did not consider him a good example of a citizen whose life was a long series of failures. The eight statements quoted in this issue 'of Lincoln Lore are those most usually found on the circulated broad sides, although various versions differ both in the number of failures tabulated and in the emphasis placed on the magnitude of the failure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.