...attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God alone wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we in the North as well as you of the...

...sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Xow at the end of three years' struggle the nation's condition...removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the Xorth, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history...

...entering its final phase, he wrote: "I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now at the end of three...what either party or any man devised or expected." There is a device with which scientific theories can be put to a test without recourse to laboratory...

...attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three...struggle the nation's condition is not what either part)', or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain....

...knew there were limits to rational human activity. "Now, at the end of 3 years of struggle" he said, "the Nation's condition Is not what either party,...man, devised or expected. God alone can claim It." Although having the torch of freedom In his hand, he did not run ahead of God with It. Lincoln therefore...