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Excerpt from The Gleaner, Vol. 1: February, 1901 Born in diametrically opposite condi tions, both were to electrify the world by the audacity of their conceptions. Lin coln was to revolutionize thought in regard to slavery, and finally break down the barrier that denied the negro the exercise of his freedom. Darwin was to startle the world by the discovery of a solution to the complicated phenomena of organic evolution. The boldness of the assertion of the mutability of species, and that man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin, were like casting a spark in an easily ignited mass. The world was shocked at the temerity of two such acts. Both continents were wrapped in war - America in a war of arms; Europe was convulsed in a war of thought. But amidst this turbulence there stood out in solitary grandeur the figures of Lincoln and Darwin. Man had hardly realized the magnitude of Lincoln's work when the bullet of an assassin brought him to an untimely death. 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.