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.