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Rh of truth. If his perceptions were perverted, distorted, and diseased, would to Heaven that more minds were so.

"The true peculiarity of Mr. Lincoln has not been seen by his various biographers; or; if seen, they have failed woefully to give it that prominence which it deserves. It is said that Newton saw an apple fall to the ground from a tree, and beheld the law of the universe in that fall; Shakspeare saw human nature in the laugh of a man; Professor Owen saw the animal in its claw; and Spencer saw the evolution of the universe in the growth of a seed.  Nature was suggestive to all these men.  Mr. Lincoln no less saw philosophy in a story, and a schoolmaster in a joke.  No man, no men, saw nature, fact, thing, or man from his stand-point.  His was a new and original position, which was always suggesting, hinting something to him.  Nature, insinuations, hints, and suggestions were new, fresh, original, and odd to him.  The world, fact, man, principle, all had their powers of suggestion to his susceptible soul. They continually put him in mind of something. He was odd, fresh, new, original, and peculiar for this reason, that he was a new, odd, and original creation and fact. He had keen susceptibilities to the hints and suggestions of nature, which always put him in mind of something known or unknown. Hence his power and tenacity of what is called association of ideas must have been great.