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奥里森·斯威特·马登:向前进·摘录 156
奥里森·斯威特·马登《向前进》· Pushing to the Front · 领导
What was there in that rude frontier forest, where this poor boy scarcely ever saw any one who knew anything of books, to rouse his ambition and to stimulate him to self-education? Whence came that yearning to know the history of men and women who had made a nation; to know the history of his country? Whence came that passion to devour the dry statutes of Indiana, as a young girl would devour a love story? Whence came that all-absorbing ambition to be somebody in the world; to serve his country with no selfish ambition? Had his father been rich and well-educated instead of a poor man who could neither read nor write and who was generally of a shiftless and roving disposition, there is no likelihood that Lincoln would ever have become the powerful man he was.
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定位:Excerpt 156 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
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马登追问:林肯身处粗陋的边疆森林,几乎见不到读书人,是什么点燃了他的雄心?他为何渴望了解缔造国家的伟人、自己国家的历史?为何像少女读爱情小说一样啃印第安纳枯燥的法条?为何一心想出人头地、无私报国?如果父亲富有且受过教育,而不是一个不会读写、漂泊懒散的人,林肯很可能不会成为后来的强者。作者想说的是:正是贫寒和匮乏逼出了他的内驱力,让他自己找路、自己教育自己。
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马登在《奋力向前》中对比林肯的出身与成就,强调逆境对塑造伟大人格的作用。
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