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Dear Rich:

Speak! Re: LINCOLN LOST / DOUGLAS WON by Allen C. Guelzo January 2019

1--Thanks! From your post: 'The purpose of democracy, as Douglas understood it, is to be an end in itself, and whatever a democratic majority decides to sanction must stand as law. (Or, as Justice Holmes put it: “If my fellow citizens want to go to hell I will help them. It’s my job.”) Lincoln, however, understood democracy as a means—a good, natural and just means—but only a means toward helping a republic achieve the good that is embodied in natural law.

It is Douglas’s procedural republic, and not Lincoln’s moral one, which has prevailed in our times. Perhaps this is why, today, we may say that the national monument to Abraham ­Lincoln stands at one end of the National Mall, but the monument to ­Stephen A. Douglas stands at the other. '

2--My CONCLUSION first. Yes, we are driven to law by what the majority 'thinks'--and acts upon.

 AND, this is driven by the technology (Marx). 

AND this technology is driven by 'the times' which are made by SPEECH (ERH, echoing the Bible--'God said '(Let there be)Light! And there was light... . Evening and morning day one'.

AND ... 'We,' worshipers led by pastors echoing God's Word, are the primary movers by speaking.

THUS, liturgy/service is the key, and holds the key.

3--Let me briefly elaborate. Lincoln and Douglas both were lawyers, railroad lawyers, for the Illinois Central. McLellan, who ran against Lincoln in 1864, worked for the Illinois Central also. After Sherman March to the Sea he went West to control the Indians.

Point: The war and what led up to it (Lincoln/Douglas) show that it was 'railroad time,' or a transportation-based political cartel. This lasted until the automobile, and highways are one manifestation of that. (To read of how the auto companies shaped such, 'Life, Inc.' has good anecdotes. And I've mentioned that my grandfather's local baseball team often had games ended because of the need to meet the train, and that the men of Stuart built

the road to Dexter, 5 miles east, one Saturday AM, and how Highway 6 was built across Iowa in ONE HOUR, and how towns improved roads to get more tourists (see' Stuart Wooden Nickel Highway' for a contemporary like effort).

4--What technology is driving us now? Gilder's "Life after Google' points to the replacement of (gasp!) the Darwinian, random, evolutionary thought upon which Big Data and Google, and the like, is based, by the creative, 'advolutionary'--to mean changing toward, purposeful--world of , let's call it, 'blockchain'.

5---AND the key into the future is what we speak.  Speech makes time: ERH. Not only war and peach--THE issue, but technology.  Tool word.  Tech=Tool, 'logy'=word. (We are  just now arriving at the quantum physic computer that can have a value of both Zero and One at the same time, downstream from the Chalcedonian speech that Jesus is both true God and true Man, without confusion, division, mixture or separation, iirc.... .

6--THUS, liturgy IS greatly important. AND we must be epistemologically self-conscious about it. One of the most important things to know that we know is why we light the candles before the start, and extinguish the candles after the end.

That is because we are amening (speech is a mnemonic artifact, a memory tool, writes Wolfe ('Kingdom of Speech'). MN, AMEN, MNeMoNic, you hear? You 'hearken,' hear as to obey (ERH). W amen remember that we are in God's image, He created, we, after Him, create.

7--AND what we say, officially, oath-wise, in worship, that's what makes blockchain, Google, highways for cars, railroads, 'the majoirity law rule'.

8--This has not been as sevendayish as I would have liked, but the sum (the I AM, from Latin) is that....well, you can figure it out.  Tell me what you do differently.

Love in King Jesus,

Chuck 'a later speaker' Hartman edencity@aol.com