On this, Abraham Lincoln's 198th birthday, it is good to ponder these words from W.E.B. Du Bois:
"I love him [Lincoln] not because he was perfect, but because he was not and yet triumphed.... The world is full of folk whose taste was educated in the gutter. The world is full of people born hating and despising their fellows. To these I love to say: See this man. He was one of you and yet became Abraham Lincoln."
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Not to nitpick, but I found an error in this blog. Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809 (coincidentally, the same date as Charles Darwin, but I digress) which would have made last Friday his 201st birthday, not his 198th.
Keep up the great work. I thoroughly enjoy reading your blog...
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