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Preface for second edition: 1921
I once knew a man who wrote a brilliant biography of Abraham Lincoln.
He himself belonged to the Civil War epoch, and while writing the book in about the year 1895, he became so absorbed and excited by that war as he studied it, and lived it over again, that he could not sleep at night.
He paced the room, lost in thought, awed by his subject.
It was a contemporary of this biographer who told me that, while the Civil War was in progress, the enthusiastic historian had taken no interest in it; it did n't seem to attract his attention.
This anecdote shows how much easier it is to see a hero in the past than in the present.
The historian is a book-trained man; records and documents speak to him; dead things live again.
But he cannot get his mind into focus upon anything so near as the present.
He is distracted by the present, but supported by the past; for in the past he is not alone.
As he studies it, the whole literature of his chosen per
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