“With nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down.” A 29-year-old Abraham Lincoln spoke these words in Springfield, Illinois to a 62-year-old nation in 1838. He worried about the need for new generations to find a new sense of purpose in America. Living off the accomplishments of forebearers would never be sufficient. 

Young Lincoln knew then, at an age that would have made him a Gen Z elder, a quarter century before his Gettysburg Address, that having harvested on the field of........

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