第33章 附录二：林肯总统葛底斯堡演说

Four score and seven years ago，our fathers brought forth on this continenta newnation，conceived inliberty，and dedicated to the proposition that allmen are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war，testing whetherthatnation，or any nation so conceived and sodedicated，can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of the field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that the nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. Butin a larger sense we cannot dedicate，we cannotconsecrate，we cannot hallowthis ground. The brave men，living anddead，who struggledhere，have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will littlenote，nor longremember，what we sayhere，but it can never forget what theydid here. It is forus，the living，rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather forus to be here dedicated to the great task remaining beforeus，that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave thelast full measure of devotion，that we here highly resolve that these dead shallnot have died in vain，that this nation，under God，shall have a new birth offreedom，and that government of the people，by the people，for the people， shall not perish from the earth.