11. The reader who would know the argument against Herndon (436-446) and Lamon (486-502) on the subject of Lincoln's early religion is referred to The Soul of Abraham Lincoln, by William Eleazer Barton. It is to be observed that the present study is never dogmatic about Lincoln's religion in its early phases. And when Herndon and Lamon generalize about his religious life, it must be remembered that they are thinking of him as they knew him in Illinois. Herndon had no familiarity with him after he went to Washington. Lamon could not have seen very much of him--no one but his secretaries and his wife did. And his taciturnity must be borne in mind. Nicolay has recorded that he did not know what Lincoln believed. Lamon, 492. That Lincoln was vaguely a deist in the 'forties--so far as he had any theology at all--may be true. But it is a rash leap to a conclusion to assume that his state of mind even then was the same thing as the impression it made on so practical, bard-headed, unpoetical a character as Lamon; or on so combatively imaginative but wholly unmystical a mind as Herndon's. Neither of them seems to have any understanding of those agonies of spirit through which Lincoln subsequently passed which will appear in the account of the year 1862. See also Miss Nicolay, 384-386. There is a multitude of pronouncements on Lincoln's religion, most of them superficial. 12. Lincoln, I, 206. 13. Nicolay, 73-74; N. and H., 1, 242; Lamon, 275-277. 14. Lamon, 277-278; Herndon, 272-273; N. and H., 1, 245-249. VI. UNSATISFYING RECOGNITION. 1. N. and H., I, 28, 28& 2. Tarbell, 1, 211. 3. Ibid., 210-211. 4. Herndon, 114. 5. Lincoln, II, 28-48. 6. Herndon, 306-308, 319; Newton, 4(141). 7. Tarbell, I, 209-210. 8. Herndon, 306. 9. Lamon, 334; Herndon, 306; N. and H., I, 297. VII. THE SECOND START. 1. Herndon, 307, 319. 2. Herndon, 319-321. 3. Herndon, 314-317. 4. Herndon, 332-333. 5. Herndon, 311-312. 6. Herndon, 319. 7. Lamon, 165. 8. Herndon, 309. 9. Herndon, 113-114; Stories, 18~ 10. Herndon, 338. 11. Lamon, 324. 12. Lincoln, 11, 142. 13. Herndon, 347. 14. Herndon, 363. 15. Herndon, 362. 16. Lincoln, II, 172. 17. Lincoln, II, 207. 18. Lincoln, II, 173. 19. Lincoln, II, 165. VIII. A RETURN TO POLITICS. 1. Johnson, 234. 2. I have permission to print the following letter from the Honorable John H. Marshall, Judge Fifth Judicial Circuit, Charleston, Illinois: