Historical Irony: "God is on Our Side"

     "Historical irony calls attention to the dramatic or fateful turn of events, in which rational purposes and high ideals are thwarted or brought to surprising result and human inventions perform functions contrary to their design.
     Instances of historical irony, in which the consequences of an act prove to be diametrically opposed to the actor’s original intention, provide occasions for the exercise of ironic wisdom as a form of critical public judgment. In American public life, ironic wisdom has particularly taken rise from occasions of historical irony. This ironic mode of wisdom is famously present in Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural:

     'Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental & astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. . . .  The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes.'"

       W. Clark Gilpin
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Instances of historical irony, in which the consequences of an act prove to be diametrically opposed to the actor’s original intention, provide occasions for the exercise of ironic wisdom as a form of critical public judgment. In American public life, ironic wisdom has particularly taken rise from occasions of historical irony. This ironic mode of wisdom is famously present in Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural: - See more at: http://wisdomresearch.org/forums/t/1198.aspx#sthash.qOGtRHqm.dpuf

Instances of historical irony, in which the consequences of an act prove to be diametrically opposed to the actor’s original intention, provide occasions for the exercise of ironic wisdom as a form of critical public judgment. In American public life, ironic wisdom has particularly taken rise from occasions of historical irony. This ironic mode of wisdom is famously present in Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural: - See more at: http://wisdomresearch.org/forums/t/1198.aspx#sthash.qOGtRHqm.dpuf

Instances of historical irony, in which the consequences of an act prove to be diametrically opposed to the actor’s original intention, provide occasions for the exercise of ironic wisdom as a form of critical public judgment. In American public life, ironic wisdom has particularly taken rise from occasions of historical irony. This ironic mode of wisdom is famously present in Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural: - See more at: http://wisdomresearch.org/forums/t/1198.aspx#sthash.qOGtRHqm.dpuf

Historical irony calls attention to the dramatic or fateful turn of events, in which rational purposes and high ideals are thwarted or brought to surprising result and human inventions perform functions contrary to their design. - See more at: http://wisdomresearch.org/forums/t/1198.aspx#sthash.qOGtRHqm.dpuf

Historical irony calls attention to the dramatic or fateful turn of events, in which rational purposes and high ideals are thwarted or brought to surprising result and human inventions perform functions contrary to their design.
Instances of historical irony, in which the consequences of an act prove to be diametrically opposed to the actor’s original intention, provide occasions for the exercise of ironic wisdom as a form of critical public judgment. In American public life, ironic wisdom has particularly taken rise from occasions of historical irony. This ironic mode of wisdom is famously present in Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural:

Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. . . . The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes.

- See more at: http://wisdomresearch.org/forums/t/1198.aspx#sthash.qOGtRHqm.dpuf

Historical irony calls attention to the dramatic or fateful turn of events, in which rational purposes and high ideals are thwarted or brought to surprising result and human inventions perform functions contrary to their design.
Instances of historical irony, in which the consequences of an act prove to be diametrically opposed to the actor’s original intention, provide occasions for the exercise of ironic wisdom as a form of critical public judgment. In American public life, ironic wisdom has particularly taken rise from occasions of historical irony. This ironic mode of wisdom is famously present in Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural:

Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. . . . The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes.

- See more at: http://wisdomresearch.org/forums/t/1198.aspx#sthash.qOGtRHqm.dpuf