In the following excerpt from the gettysburg address, an appeal to is particularly being made. from the gettysburg address it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which [the brave men] who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. . ethics authority attitude logic