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Lincoln would surely be intrigued to see the son of an African man living with his wife, the descendant of slaves, in his old digs at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But what might fascinate him even more, were he to materialize for his bicentennial, is the extent to which the American economy has fulfilled and exceeded his urgent vision of an entrepreneurial, innovative marketplace geared to upward mobility. The man who once said 'I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable' would have a swell time visiting Apple headquarters or touring a genetic-engineering lab. Among the mansions and pretensions of our millionaires and billionaires, he would shrug and say (as he said in 1860), 'I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting richit would do more harm than good. [But] while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.'

An equal chance.
Lincoln's thoughts on money are relevant today because he reminds us of the best aspects of the American economy not just how to survive a crash but why it matters that we do. The boggling complexity of today's marketplace would amaze him, but the fact that bust has once again followed boom would not. Lincoln lived through two major economic crashes, in 1837 and 1857, and he learned some timeless lessons. He foresaw, in the Union he struggled to preserve, an open, competitive, capitalist, enterprising nation, tied together by rapid transportation and communication. He believed that government had a leading role to play in building the infrastructure of a growing economy. But the guiding principle for all of it, the whole reason for the nation's being, was that 'equal chance' the humble citizen's right to get ahead. Lincoln understood that economic freedom was the bedrock of political liberty.

A. 어휘
intrigue 흥미를 돋구다. descendant 後孫(후손). digs 下宿(하숙).
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue 펜실바니아街(가) 1600번지(미국대통령 관저 White House 가 있다).
materialize (영혼 등이)體現(체현)되다. extent 정도. fulfill 실행하다, 수행하다.
exceed 초과하다. urgent 긴박한, 끈질긴. entrepreneurial 기업의. innovative 혁신적인.
mobility 유동성, 이동성. gear 연결하다, 맞추다. upward mobility 계층상승.
swell 화려한, 멋진, 일류의. Apple headquarters 애플社(사) 본부.
genetic-engineering lab 유전공학 실험실. pretensions 우쭐대기, 虛勢(허세).
shrug 어깨를 움츠리다. relevant 적절한. boggle 소스라치게 놀라다.
complexity 복잡성. bust 불경기, 파산, 强打(강타). timeless 영원한.
foresee 예견하다. preserve 보존하다. infrastructure 하부구조, 경제기반.
bedrock 기초, 기본원리.

B. 구문
- But what might fascinate him. . . innovative marketplace geared to upward mobility.
cf. were he to materialize=if he were to materialize
[그가 그의 탄생 200년제를 위해 지금 체현한다면(다시 나타난다면) 그를 더욱더 매혹시키는 것은 미국의 경제가 상향이동(계층상승)을 위해 장치된 기업적이고 혁신적인 시장에 대한 그의 간절한 비전을 이미 성취하고 초과 달성한 정도일 것이다.]
- why it matters that we do.
[우리가 지금 하는 행동(조치)가 왜 중요한 것인가를]

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One is not possible without the other. Thus it was not just virtuous but also necessary to fight the slave economy. Lincoln has been criticized for saying, during his famous debates with Stephen Douglas, that white and black might never be equal in social terms. But he was firm on the economic question: 'In the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns,' Lincoln insisted, a black person 'is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.' Another time, responding to the Southern argument that Northern factory workers were, in essence, just as enslaved as plantation hands, Lincoln zeroed in on the crucial difference. 'There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us,' he said. 'Free labor has the inspiration of hopepure slavery has no hope.'
There is little trace of this money-conscious Lincoln at the great memorial on the National Mall. To catch the scent of that man the one who knows what we're going through and why the right solutions remain urgently important to the world we're better off visiting another white-stone, Greek-style temple. Older and odder than the monument on the mall, this Lincoln memorial is situated on an out-of-the-way hilltop in western Kentucky, roughly on the spot where Lincoln was born.

A. 어휘
virtuous 공정한, 덕이 있는. debate 토론. social terms 사회적 관계. firm 단호한.
leave 허가. cf. without leave of anybody else 다른 누구의 허락도 받지 않고.
equal 동등한 사람. in essence 본질적으로. be enslaved 노예가 되다.
plantation 대규모 농장. hands 일꾼. zero in on ...에 목표를 맞추다.
the crucial difference 결정적인 차이. permanent 영원한, 불변의. class 계층, 계급.
hired laborers 고용노동자. trace 자취, 흔적. money-conscious 돈을 의식하고 있는.
mall 양쪽에 나무가 늘어선 길. scent 향기. go through 겪다, 경험하다.
odd 색 다른. situated ...에 위치해 있다. out-of-the-way 외딴, 마을에서 떨어진.
roughly 대략.

B. 구문
- we're better off visiting another white-stone, Greek-style temple.
cf. visiting→ if you visit
[또 하나의 그리스 양식의 석조전당을 방문한다면 더 나을 것이다.]