Lincoln? He was a mystery in smoke and flags Saying yes to the smoke, yes to the flags, Yes to the paradoxes of democracy …. Yes to man as a struggler amid illusions, Each man fated to answer for himself: Which of the faiths and illusions of mankind Must I choose for my own sustaining light To bring me beyond the present wilderness? Carl Sandburg, 1936

This was written in the middle of a miserable crisis - the Great Depression - about a way of leading through an even worse crisis - the Civil War.

Maybe it's worth some thought in our own era. But we don't need to wait for a new Lincoln to emerge.

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