November: Lincoln's Elegy at GettysburgIt begins with the search for hallowed ground, the exact place from which Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. In bleak November, Kent Gramm makes a pilgrimage to the most famous battleground in American history and over the course of a month transforms his search into a discovery of the meaning of Lincoln's elegy for America's identity. |
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... Liberty is the ecstasy , the transport , the Union — in a realm higher than things of the material world - out of which came an incarnation , something into the world of things : out of liberty and suprasensual ideals working as persons ...
... liberty , for the condition of liberty must be equally shared by all . The democracy of previous peoples extended only to some ; others were slaves or otherwise disfranchised . There is no liberty , in the American sense , without ...
... liberty from sin , death , and the devil - from all oppression . Through dedi- cation , we enter into eschatological ... liberty , by those who would deprive anyone of justice . Delivered well after the Emancipation Proclamation , the ...
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Brought Forth Pen and Sword | 30 |
NOVEMBER 4 | 41 |
NOVEMBER 5 | 63 |
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