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- W1521175897 abstract "In 1870 the former vice-president of the Confederacy, Alexander H. Stephens, offered what has surely become the best-known char acterization of Abraham Lincoln's nationalism. In Lincoln, Stephens suggested, the sentiment of Union rose to the sublimity of a reli gious mysticism. A century later, in his entry for in The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia, Mark E. Neely, Jr., cited Stephens's famous comment but was quick to add that there was, in fact, little that was about Lincoln's love for the Union. It was important to remember, Neely suggested, that Lincoln's po litical thought never departed from the old Lockean universe of natural rights. His idea of American nationality was, therefore, not rooted in the mystical soil of nineteenth-century romanticism; it was solidly grounded in the principled bedrock of Thomas Jeffer son's eighteenth-century preamble to the Declaration of Indepen dence, and to that extent, Neely suggested, Lincoln's nationalism was distinctly old-fashioned.1 Using Neely's caveat about Stephens's observation as its point of departure, this essay seeks to explore the old-fashioned character of Lincoln's nationalism from an unlikely, and fresh, perspective: its connection, via the En lightenment, to classical antiquity. Of course when we think of Lincoln, and especially of his polit ical thought, we tend not to think in terms of classical influences. Unlike the Revolutionary generation of American leaders whom Lincoln admired so much, he would appear to have had neither the means nor the opportunity of absorbing any significant form of a classical tradition. Had he been born even a generation earli" @default.
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- W1521175897 title "An 'Old-Fashioned' Nationalism: Lincoln, Jefferson, and the Classical Tradition" @default.
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