“A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.” – Sophocles

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

3 November

According to Congressman Henry Dawes, “the political sagacity of no other man was ever equal to that which enabled him [Lincoln] to gather around him in earnest support of his administration, rivalries, opposing purposes, conflicting theories, and implacable enmities, which would have rent asunder any other administration. He grew wiser and broader and stronger as difficulties thickened and perils multiplied, till the end found him the wonder in our history. I could never quite fathom his thoughts. But as I saw how he overcame obstacles and escaped entanglements, it grew upon me that he was wiser than the men around him, that the nation had no other man for the place to which he was assigned by the Great Disposer.”