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Excerpt from Selections From Abraham Lincoln ET reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisp ing babe that prattles on her lap; let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, Qj spelling - books, and in almanacs; let it f, be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts g, Of justice. And, in short, let, it become the V political religion of the nation; and let the Old and the young, the rich and the n: poor, the grave and the gay of all sexes and tongues and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars. From an address 'before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield in which Abraham Lincoln, a young man of 28, points out that the great dangers to the Republic come from evils and weak nesses, within its own household. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.