As Diggins concludes regarding the highly influential Cooper Union speech of early 1860, " Lincoln presented Americans a theory of history that offers a profound contribution to the theory and destiny of republicanism itself.

From around 1840 to 1860, laissez-faire advocates of the Manchester School and writers in The Economist were confident that their early victories would lead to a period of expanding economic and personal liberty and world peace but would face reversals as government intervention and activity continued to expand from the 1850s.

Coloured Cheddar-style cheese has long been sold, but even as early as 1860, the real reason for this was unclear: Joseph Harding stated " to the cheese consumers of London who prefer an adulterated food to that which is pure I have to announce an improvement in the annatto with which they compel the cheesemakers to colour the cheese ".

Quills went into decline after the invention of the metal pen, which was first patented in America in 1810 and then mass produced by 1860, although mass production began in Great Britain as early as 1822 by John Mitchell of Birmingham.

The RGB color model is based on the Young – Helmholtz theory of trichromatic color vision, developed by Thomas Young and Hermann Helmholtz, in the early to mid nineteenth century, and on James Clerk Maxwell's color triangle that elaborated that theory ( circa 1860 ).

As early as 1860, Kirchhoff and Bunsen noted the high sensitivity of a sodium flame test, and stated in Annalen der Physik und Chemie:

It was also in accord with the desire of the Transvaal Boers to obtain a seaport, a desire which had led them as early as 1860 to negotiate with the Zulus for the possession of St Lucia Bay.

While an " underground railroad " running south toward Florida, then a Spanish possession, existed from the late 17th century until shortly after the American Revolution, the network now generally known as the Underground Railroad was formed in the early 19th century, and reached its height between 1850 and 1860.

One early minor poem was " Masters in this Hall " ( 1860 ), a Christmas carol written to an old French tune.

He wrote to his wife on 14 January 1860: " I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life.

Financial historians Richard Sylla and Robert E. Wright have shown that before 1860 most early U. S. corporations sold shares in themselves directly to the public without the aid of intermediaries like investment banks.

An early case was that of Percy Lefroy Mapleton ( 1860 – 1881 ) hanged for murder and the subject of the first composite picture on a wanted poster.

After a year in London, as counterpoint to his 1858 French set, in 1860, he produced another set of etchings called Thames Set, as well as some early impressionistic work, including The Thames in Ice.

While this section highlights the modern trends of strict mechanical performance as something widespread in the 20th century and beyond ; it is interesting to observe that as early as 1860, there were people who firmly advocated this type of " modern " performance practice:

In her Clues in the Needlework newsletter, Barbara Brackman wrote, " Many of the blocks in the early album quilts made between 1840 and 1860 featured elaborate ink signatures and small drawings and verses.

Between 1860 and the early 1880s, the only settlers in what became Coke County were ranchers attracted to open grazing land.

It was named in honor of David Benton ( 1779 – 1860 ), who was an early settler in the county and a member of the Third Regiment, Tennessee Militia in the Creek War.

The Community of Christ today considers the period from 1830 to 1844 to be a part of its early history and from 1844, the year of the death of the founder, to 1860, to be a period of disorganization.

The carronade was in service from 1780 to 1860 and is now on loan from the Royal Artillery Museum in Woolwich as a reminder of Welling's early association with the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, when huts at East Wickham were built as homes for munitions workers in the Great War.

Created in the early 19th century, the Underground Railroad was at its height between 1850 and 1860.

As early as 1860, Chinese settlers began excavating guano for fertilising their vegetable patches.

City improvements in 1860 were nearly all made in the spring and early summer.

Charles S. Rankin founded the city in September 1860 ; the origin of the name was originally Pevely Springs named after an early inhabitant then later shortened to Pevely.

The township was originally populated by a small French Canadian group that was replaced by immigrants from southern Bohemia starting as early as 1860.

Allmusic claims some have argued that Isaac Hayes and Barry White were playing what would be called disco music as early as 1971.

Young's experiment, performed in the early 1800s, played a vital part in the acceptance of the wave theory of light, vanquishing the corpuscular theory of light proposed by Isaac Newton, which had been the accepted model of light propagation in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Hasidism was brought to Hungary later, in early 1800s, by Kaliv ( Hasidic dynasty ) | Yitzchak Isaac Taub of Kaliv and Moshe Teitelbaum ( Ujhel ) | Moshe Teitelbaum of Ujhel

In the early Christian church, Abraham's willingness to follow God's command to sacrifice Isaac was used as an example of faith and of obedience.

Isaac embraces his father Abraham after the Binding of Isaac, early 1900s Bible illustration

The early Christian church viewed Abraham's willingness to follow God's command to sacrifice Isaac as an example of faith and obedience.

The stories of Isaac, like other patriarchal stories of Genesis, are generally believed in liberal Western scholarship to have " their origin in folk memories and oral traditions of the early Hebrew pastoralist experience.

Elaborating on this theme are numerous early and late Jewish scholars, including the Ramban, Isaac Abrabanel, Abraham Ibn Ezra, Rabbeinu Bachya, the Vilna Gaon, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, the Ramchal, Aryeh Kaplan, and Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis.

Two central figures in the early modern age are Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton.

A treatise on music theory and the aesthetics of music written for Descartes's early collaborator, Isaac Beeckman.

Often attributed to a neologism coined by Isaac Bonewits in 1974, Patricia ' Iolana traces the early use of the term to 1976 crediting both Bonewits and Valerie Saiving in its initial use.

In early 1928, Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the network's Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim.

The most respected scientific journals of this time were the refereed journals of the Royal Society, which had published many of the great works from Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday through to early works from Charles Darwin.

The term " Microcomputer " came into popular use after the introduction of the minicomputer, although Isaac Asimov used the term microcomputer in his short story " The Dying Night " as early as 1956 ( published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in July that year ).

Isaac Barrow is generally given credit for the early development of the derivative.

The records of his visit include sketches of the early city buildings, a description of local geography and agriculture, commentary on its politics and social order, essays, speeches, and sermons from Brigham Young, Isaac Morley, George Washington Bradley and other prominent leaders, and snapshots of everyday life such as newspaper clippings and the menu from a high-society ball.

* Though Isaac Asimov was best known for his long and illustrious career as a science fiction author, his writing came second to his academic career early in his life.

It is one of the most valuable attempts at a systematized exposition of the history of early rabbinical literature and theology, and has largely inspired subsequent works of that kind, as those of Jacob Brüll and Isaac H. Weiss.

* Leucothoé an early work by the Irish playwright Isaac Bickerstaffe.

Aside from the obvious influence on artists that Taylor has worked with over the years, numerous notable people have named Taylor and DA as musical heroes over the years including artists like U2, The Ocean Blue, Randy Stonehill, The 77s, Phil Keaggy, Steve Taylor, Jimmy Abegg, Phil Madeira, Crystal Lewis, This Train, Carolyn Arends ( Arends actually used to perform DA songs in one of her early bands ), Ventriloquist Terry Fator, Brian Healy, The Throes, The Choir, Mortal, Larry Norman, Animator and Musician Doug TenNapel, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Isaac Air Freight, Deliverance, Starflyer59, Jonathan Coulton ,< ref >

In the early to mid 1990s, Isaac, Taylor and Zac sang a cappella and recorded songs like " Rockin ' Robin ", " Splish Splash " and " Johnny B. Goode ", as well as their own material.

Gaylesville was the late 19th & early 20th century home to Isaac Knowles, born in the West Indies.

Ferries crossed the river as early as May 20, 1820 when Isaac Canby was licensed for a ferry across the river and another to cross the creek.