The fact that the American mass democratic system came to maturity at the same time that Lincoln came to maturity, that he was learning his politics as those politics were themselves developing and evolving into the definitive mass democracy that we know today, means that Lincoln was bringing something to that system .. that had, itself, been influenced by the development of evangelical Protestantism.
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The fact that the American mass democratic system came to maturity at the same time that Lincoln came to maturity, that he was learning his politics as those politics were themselves developing and evolving into the definitive mass democracy that we know today, means that Lincoln was bringing something to that system .. that had, itself, been influenced by the development of evangelical Protestantism. 
