The Abraham Lincoln Myth: An Essay in "higher Criticism,"Mascot publishing Company, 1894 - 88 páginas |
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The Abraham Lincoln Myth: An Essay in "higher Criticism," Bocardo Bramantip Visualização integral - 1894 |
The Abraham Lincoln Myth: An Essay in "higher Criticism," Bocardo Bramantip Visualização integral - 1894 |
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Página 75 - The usual character of human testimony is substantial truth under circumstantial variety. This is what the daily experience of courts of justice teaches. When accounts of a transaction come from the mouths of different witnesses, it is seldom that it is not possible to pick out apparent or real inconsistencies between them. These inconsistencies are studiously displayed by an adverse pleader...
Página 37 - A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mold in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation;!
Página 68 - Strauss's mythical theory is dead and buried by common consent ; Baur's tendency theory is much the same ; Renan will have none of the Tubingen school ; Volkmar is already antiquated ; and Pfleiderer's fancies are now in the order of the day. Meanwhile, we who believe in a risen Lord look quietly on, while the " higher criticism "swallows its own offspring.
Página 53 - My paramount object is to save the Union, and not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it.
Página 67 - One theorist follows another— now Mark is uppermost as the Ur-Evangelist, now Matthew — now the Synoptics are sacrificed to St. John, now St. John to the Synoptics. Baur relegates one after another of the Epistles to the second century because his theory cannot do with them in the first. Harnack tells you that Baur's theory is all wrong, and that Thessalonians and Philippians must go back again. Volkmar sweeps together Gospels and Epistles in a heap towards the middle of the second century as...
Página 75 - It so rarely happens that witnesses of the same transaction perfectly and entirely agree in all points connected with it, that an entire and complete coincidence in every particular, so far from strengthening their credit, not unfrequently engenders a suspicion of practice and concert.
Página 68 - ... sweeps together Gospels and Epistles in a heap towards the middle of the second century as the earliest date for almost all of them ; and Dr. Abbot, who, as we are told, has absorbed all the learning of...
Página 45 - ... patriots and statesmen, have been lost to the Government owing to indifference of officials or neglect of Congress. In some cases such collections have been scattered all over the country with the aid of the auctioneer, or permanently passed into the archives of other libraries. Recently the original copy of the Declaration of Independence was withdrawn from public exhibition in the State Department Library, made into a roll, and placed in a tin box for filing with the archives of the Government....
Página 15 - Johnson.The story of his assassination suggests, in all its details, the hand of a novelist or a playwright. The time chosen for the tragedy, a Good Friday night ; the place, a crowded theater ; the assassin, a professional actor of tragedy; the • murderer's dramatic leap upon the 'stage, brandishing the weapon of death and exclaiming in dramatic tones,