the statement
"If you think that sounds like something Karl Marx would write, well, that might be because Lincoln was regularly reading Karl Marx."
... is about as useful as ***** (word that rhymes with grits) on a bull. Regularly? as in daily? or monthly? would you believe ....
Oh, and the implication (to some) would be that Abe was dragging down Das Kapital every morning to read along with his Bible.
I belive that Dana was influential in getting New York Tribune's Greeley to print occasional articles by the hairy-faced know-all, thus subsidising his costs of cigars and maybe even helping to feed his large family and minimising the need to scrounge off that cotton capitalist Engels.
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/10/1...karl-marx/