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Abraham Lincoln's New Nation
The U.S president Abraham Lincoln starts with a little math conversion in the text Gettysburg Address (1863), “Four score and seven years ago”. Based on the given mathematical sentence, 4 times 20 plus 7 equals 87 and subtract the value from 1863 is 1776 which is the DOI. In the class, we discussed about the word ‘New Nation’ which stands for most likely United States of America. There is a word describe this new nation that is “conceived” in the second paragraph. This is the original purpose of the text based on the idea of Piology. This means the new birth in the Christian point of view as the spiritual salvation the Jesus died in vein. This refers to the idea of Lincoln that national is individually alive. Another word of the text “fitting

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