Barnard's Lincoln, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Taft to the city of Cincinnati; the creation and dedication of George Grey Barnard's statue of Abraham Lincoln, including the address of William (14597199908)

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Title: Barnard's Lincoln, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Taft to the city of Cincinnati; the creation and dedication of George Grey Barnard's statue of Abraham Lincoln, including the address of William Howard Taft

Year: 1917 (1910s)

Authors: Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Subjects: Barnard, George Grey, 1863-1938 Lincoln Statue (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Publisher: Cincinnati : Stewart & Kidd company

Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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of Mr. andJNIrs. Charles P. Taft, and the mayor of Cin-cinnati, the Honorable George Puchta, ac-cepted in behalf of the city. The Barnard Lincoln definitely has takenits place, not only in the artistic chronicles ofthe nation, but in a great peoples conceptionof their most representative man. It is a Lin-coln that seems to bear in divine benevolenceof expression the true destinies of world de-mocracy. No man can stand before it with- PREFACE 11 out drawing from it a new inspiration as tohis countrys ideals and a new faith in theirfuture. You are in a sense touched bv thehallowed spirit, the strongly gentle soul, thatlooms to-day larger than ever in this world ofmilitaristic ambition. He freed men and hebound a nations wounds, and he did it all withnoble simplicity and self-abnegation. To-daythe world is placing him among its great moralpowers above its Cassars. The reason for thiscanonization has been nobly expressed in themedium of bronze by JNIr. Barnard. Barnards Statue of Lincoln

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Photograph by J. S. Hanford. Full-Length Photograph Barnards Statue of Lincoln Dr. Lyman Whitney Ali.kn The clay again has found a dowered handTo shape a wonder. Lo, the sculptors artHas made its last the finest. There he standsA peoples idol! This is masterpieceOf man, as was the loved originalOf God—inventions triumph for lifes sake,Great history featured by great artistry,A poets allegory wrought in bronze. This is a symbol of democracy—A towering figure risen from the soilAnd keeping the earth mold, yet so informedBy spiritual power that they who gazePerceive high kinship bearing similar stampTo One of eld from whom was learned the wayOf wisdom and the love that goes to death.And this is commonalty glorified—A root out of dry ground, but wateredBy those inherent and ancestral streamsWhose springs are in the furthest heavenlies.And this is natures haunting miracle^—The lowly dust builded to pinnacles,The earth-bound soul consorting with the stars. 15 1« BARXARDS I.IXCOI.X

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