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Q: My claim is that Lincoln's address expresses the same idea that was then current in Europe. Each people of common history and language constitutes a nation, and the natural form for the nation's survival was in a state structure.
A:
Lincoln's address and Europeas where the same. Common history and language constitutes a nation, and the natural form for the nation's survival was a state structure.