Abraham Lincoln - The Practical Mystic by Francis Grierson audiobook.
Genre: biography
Francis Grierson's Abraham Lincoln - The Practical Mystic is a brief, provocative portrait of the 16th president that shifts the spotlight from policy and battlefield headlines to the inner life behind them. Writing in the early twentieth century, Grierson argues that Lincoln's greatest strength was a rare fusion of hardheaded realism and spiritual perception: a leader who could weigh men and events with a lawyer's precision, yet remain guided by a profound sense of moral law, destiny, and the unseen forces shaping history. Through vignettes, character sketches, and reflections on Lincoln's words and habits, the book follows Lincoln from his frontier simplicity into the pressures of national leadership, examining how patience, humor, and empathy became tools of statecraft. Grierson explores themes such as the divine will, premonition and intuition, the tension between material power and conscience, and the way Lincoln's quiet reserve could conceal deep contemplation. Part biography, part philosophical essay, this is an interpretive study that invites listeners to reconsider Lincoln not only as a master politician, but as a man whose faith in higher principles informed every practical choice.
Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 1
(00:14:19) Chapter 2
(00:28:07) Chapter 3
(00:45:47) Chapter 4
(01:02:31) Chapter 5
(01:13:55) Chapter 6
(01:28:59) Chapter 7
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