and “a piece of floating driftwood.” While liberal capitalism was supposed to expand the horizons of one’s choices and opportunities, Lincoln insisted all through his life that he did not believe in free choice, but rather in a “doctrine of necessity.” Intellectually, he was stamped from his earliest days by the Calvinism of his parents. But he rebelled vigorously against that influence in adolescence, declined to join his parents’ church, and turned instead toward the Enlightenment as his intellectual