ILLUSTRATIONS ABRAHAM LINCOLN Photogravure Frontispiece From a photograph taken by S. M. Fassett of Chicago in October, 1859. FACSIMILE OF INSTRUCTIONS, IN LINCOLN'S HANDWRITING, GIVEN ON TABLET ON THE FRONT OF THE CITY HALL AT BEARDSTOWN, ILLINOIS 46 THE OLD COURTHOUSE, BEARDSTOWN, ILLINOIS, IN WHICH THE CASE OF THE PEOPLE VS. ARMSTRONG WAS TRIED, NOW USED AS THE FACSIMILE OF TITLE PAGE OF ALMANAC FOR 1857 46 FACSIMILE OF CALENDAR for august, 1857, AS IT APPEARS IN THE 50 52 GEORGE HARDING 80 Burnet House, CINCINNATI, WHERE LINCOLN MET STANTON IN 1855 84 (Facsimile of announcement of opening) FACSIMILE OF AFFIDAVIT, IN LINCOLN'S HANDWRITING, FILED IN THE CASE OF THE UNITED STATES VS. REINBACH IN THE UNITED 204 TH mentality which has been equaled by few men must be admitted by all who are familiar with his remarkable career; for in no other way can the intellectual force which he displayed throughout his mature years be explained or accounted for. As he himself said, when he came of age he "could read, write, and cipher by the Rule of Three, but that was all." He had, as he stated in an autobiography which he wrote in 1860, attended school in all less than one year, and the teachers were required to teach only the three subjects before mentioned. Therefore, if the term education is confined to its primary meaning, as generally accepted, which may be defined as a training which results from the pursuit of a complete course in an institution of learning, it must be conceded that Mr. Lincoln was not an 1 See Letters, vol. II (Centenary Edition), p. 212. |