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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
THE PRACTICAL MYSTIC
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
ILLUSIONS AND REALITIES OF
THE WAR
THE INVINCIBLE ALLIANCE
AND OTHER ESSAYS
THE CELTIC TEMPERAMENT
MODERN MYSTICISM AND
OTHER ESSAYS
PARISIAN PORTRAITS
THE HUMOUR OF THE UNDERMAN
THE VALLEY OF SHADOWS
LA VIE ET LES HOMMES
(in French)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
THE PRACTICAL MYSTIC
By FRANCIS GRIERSON
Author of "Modern Mysticism,"
"Illusions and Realities of the War,"
"The Valley of Shadows," Etc.
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY
LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
MCMXVIII
Copyright, 1918,
By JOHN LANE COMPANY
Press of
J. J. Little & Ives Co.
New York, U. S. A.
CONTENTS The Practical Mysticism of Abraham Lincoln 9 The Divine Will 12 The Mystical Awakening 13 The Agnostic and the Mystic 17 The Logic of the Supernatural 19 The Mystical Mood 21 "Going into the Silence" 22 Invisible Powers 24 The Fusion of Spirit and
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Matter 26 His Miraculous Progress 28 A Prophetic Witness 30 Lincoln's Simplicity 32 Lincoln's Clairvoyant Wit 34 A Prophetic Vision of Hades 37 Shakespeare and Lincoln 40 A Prophecy Fulfilled 42 The Ordinances of Heaven 44 Lincoln's Face 48 The Great Debate 49 Forecastings and Premonitions 52 Illumination of the Spirit 54 Tycho Brahe and Lincoln 56 Herndon's Analysis and Testimony 58 An Original Mind 60 The Great Books
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THE PRACTICAL MYSTIC