At what point in the speech does lincoln suggest his own humility? 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 have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives the world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here it is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work . . they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced