M & D related...from NYTimes review of new LINCOLN AS WRITER book yesterday

[Mark Kohut]

...as well as a sort of Enlightenment rationalism that Lincoln found
more congenial than the Protestant emotionalism of his father, with
whom he maintained a distant, even chilly relationship.

By most accounts, Lincoln vacillated between two emotional poles --
between the melancholic and the irreverent, the stoic and the playful
-- and his taste in reading reflected these two moods.


Lincoln was Mason & Dixon!
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