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Our reading group completed Aristotle’s Rhetoric last week, and this week we moved on to some speeches of Abraham Lincoln (Wisconsin, 1848; Peoria, 1854)
What you notice is that it *is* possible to be rehtorically effective, while also being generous to your opponent’s opinion — or rather, being generous to the *person* holding that opposing opinion.
In fact, it is more persuasive.
It’s something worth aspiring to.
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