Curtain
Education and Any City appear before the curtain.
Any City. I am wondering if the book—the learning for which he hungered—was placed in the hand of the serf even after a more democratic government was established.
Education. No, not put into his hands; but he might reach forth his hands and take, and no man deny him. Come, I will show you two pictures: the first, the book in feudal times, the second, the book in a democracy.
Exit Education and Any City.
Seventh Glimmer: The Book
First Picture: A high reading-desk to which a book is chained. The light feebly burns above.
Second Picture: Abraham Lincoln, the boy, reading close to the light of the fire. The light of education burns brightly above his head.
The curtain is dropped for a moment between the two tableaux.