Excerpt from: lincoln’s gettysburg address abraham lincoln 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 battlefield of that war. what inference can you make regarding lincoln's use of the word great in this sentence? a) lincoln thinks the civil war will last long. b) lincoln thinks the civil war will be larger in size than other wars. c) lincoln thinks the civil war effort will involve men of superior quality. d) lincoln thinks the civil war will be of outstanding significance or importance.