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What did President Lincoln mean by saying that no man could consecrate (declare something sacred) the grounds of the cemetery?

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Lincoln is saying that the ground cannot be declared holy, because: The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

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Lincoln is saying that the ground cannot be declared holy, because: Lincoln means that the extreme sacrifice the men who had fought and died on that battlefield have made was in itself a greater act than any other could now, or ever, perform in ordaining the soil on which they died.

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