Swett’s Summary of Abraham Lincoln’s Great Gifts

“It was by ignoring men, and ignoring all small causes, but by closely calculating the tendencies of events and the great forces which where producing logical results.” Furthered by John Forney of the Washington Daily Chronicle, “the most truly progressive man of the age, because he always moves in conjunction with the propitious circumstances, not waiting to be dragged by the force of events or wasting strength in premature struggles with them.”