Excerpt from Lincoln as a Human Being: An Address Delivered in the Old South Church, Boston, Massachusetts, at the Morning Service, February 8, 1920 And a man shall be as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Isaiah 32 2. In any survey of history one meets many men great in intellect, in poetic genius, in artistic power, in military renown and political glory who are not great as human beings. David Hume, Lord Byron, Titian, the mighty Caesar, and the mightier Hannibal, - mightier far, surely, as a soldier, - are not significant as men; they are decidely unattractive as human beings. There is, however, another class of men through whose genius streams their humanity as the sun shine flows through the air: Socrates, Dante, Michelangelo, Cromwell, soldier and statesman. These men all achieved great things, but through these great things there appear still vaster things, -themselves and the character of their human ity; ultimately their appeal is the appeal of the human being to human beings. 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.