How does Lincoln express the idea that the Civil War is a fight over whether a country that promises
equality for all can survive? Select the correct text in the passage.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,
conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we
are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so
dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to
dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that
that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger
sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate-we cannot hallow-this ground. The brave
men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add
or detract.