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CONTENTS

I. A PERSONAL LIFE AND ITS INTEREST TO AMERICANS

II. THE PROCESS OF LIFE FROM WITHIN

III. A LIFE BUILT AS ONE WOULD HAVE THE NATION

I. THE PROBLEM OF A WORTHWHILE LIFE

II. THE LINCOLN BOY OF THE KENTUCKY WOODS

III. HOME-SEEKERS IN THE WILD WEST

IV. A WONDERFUL FAMILY IN THE DESOLATE WILDERNESS

V. WAY-MARKS OF RIGHT LIFE

I. THE LINCOLN BOY AND HIS SISTER

II. HOW THE LINCOLN BOY MADE THE LINCOLN MAN

III. SOME SIGNS ALONG THE EARLY WAY

IV. ILLUSTRATIONS SHOWING THE MAKING OF A MAN

V. LINCOLN’S FIRST DOLLAR

VI. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A SUPERIOR MIND

I. THE WILDERNESS AS THE GARDEN OF POLITICAL LIBERTY

II. SMALL BEGINNINGS IN PUBLIC ESTEEM

III. TESTS OF CHARACTER ON THE LAWLESS FRONTIER

IV. THE PIONEER MISSIONARY OF HUMANITY

V. EXPERIENCES IN THE INDIAN WAR

VI. LIFE-MAKING DECISIONS

I. BUSINESS NOT HARMONIOUS WITH THE STRUGGLE FOR LEARNING

II. MAKING A LIVING AND LEARNING THE MEANING OF LIFE

III. OUT OF THE WILDERNESS PATHS INTO THE GREAT HIGHWAY

IV. LINCOLN’S FIRST LAW CASES

V. THE MAN WHO COULD NOT LIVE FOR SELF ALONE

I. HELPFULNESS AND KINDNESS OF A WORTH-WHILE CHARACTER

II. THE LOVE OF FREEDOM AND TRUTH

III. THE WIT-MAKERS AND THEIR WIT

IV. TURBULENT TIMES AND SOCIAL STORMS

V. THE FRONTIER “FIRE-EATER”

VI. HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE

I. SIMPLICITY AND SYMPATHY ESSENTIAL TO GENUINE CHARACTER

II. NEARING THE HEIGHTS OF A PUBLIC CAREER

III. SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF MOMENTOUS TIMES

IV. THE BEGINNINGS OF GREAT TRAGEDY

V. THE LIFE STRUGGLE OF A MAN TRANSLATED INTO THE LIFE STRUGGLE OF A NATION

VI. SOME HUMAN INTERESTS MAKING LIGHTER THE BURDENS OF THE TROUBLED WAY

I. THE MAN AND THE CONFIDENCE OF THE PEOPLE

II. TYPICAL INCIDENTS FROM AMONG MOMENTOUS SCENES

III. EXPERIENCES DEMANDING MERCY AND NOT SACRIFICE

IV. HUMANITY AND THE GREAT SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE

V. SIMPLE INTERESTS THAT NEVER GROW OLD

VI. SOME INCIDENTS FROM THE GREAT YEARS

I. FALSEHOOD AIDS NO ONE’S TRUTH

II. FREEDOM TO MISREPRESENT IS NOT FREEDOM

III. HOMELY WAYS TO EXPRESS TRUTH

IV. THE GREAT TRAGEDY

I. THE FRIEND OF HUMANITY

II. THE TIME WHEN “THOSE WHO CAME TO SCOFF REMAINED TO PRAY”

III. SOME TYPICAL EXAMPLES GIVING VIEWS OF LINCOLN’S LIFE

IV. REMEMBRANCE AT THE END OF A HUNDRED YEARS

I. THE HARMONIZING CONTRAST OF MEN

II. A MASTERPIECE OF MEANING FOR AMERICA

III. THE MISSION OF AMERICA