“Lincoln takes his place in a long march of those poets who expose us to our deepest self-contradictions... his Second Inaugural, far from being a celebration of victory, is an admission of national culpability: we ascribed to ourselves an authority we do not properly have.”
— Lewis Thomas 1913 – 1993 CE
Gestaltist of science and art
from The Religious Case Against Belief (2008)
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