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A Man for the Ages
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Title: A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy
Author: Irving Bacheller
Illustrator: John Wolcott Adams
Release Date: December 5, 2005 [EBook #17237]
Language: English
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A MAN FOR THE AGES
By IRVING BACHELLER
A STORY OF THE BUILDERS OF DEMOCRACY
AUTHOR OF THE LIGHT IN THE CLEARING, KEEPING UP WITH LIZZIE, ETC.
1919
TO MY DEAR FRIEND AND COMRADE ALEXANDER GROSSET
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK IN TOKEN OF MY ESTEEM
_Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built._
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. _March 21, 1864._
A Letter
TO THE AGED AND HONORABLE JOSIAH TRAYLOR FROM HIS GRANDSON, A SOLDIER IN FRANCE, WHEREIN THE