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Here sits another replica of the iconic cabin, this time in its proper physical context. Carl Sandburg calculated that the walk for water was a mile each way, but try as you might to put yourself in the place of a barefoot child making that long trip with that heavy bucket to that dark and drafty little room, it's almost impossible. For you know that if you grow cold or bored or turn an ankle or run a fever, you'll soon be back in the modern world, temperature-controlled and professionally doctored. Within two years of his family's trek into Indiana, Lincoln's mother was dead. The boy watched her suffer and probably helped make her coffin. His father Thomas Lincoln, unable to cope with farm and family by himself, returned to Kentucky, leaving his children nearly abandoned in the hardwood forest. Abe was 10, Sarah 12a teenage cousin was their only company. 'The panther's scream filled night with fear,' Lincoln later wrote. When Thomas finally returned months later with his new wife, they found the future President and his sister living almost like animals, filthy and deprived.
His stepmother Sarah Bush Johnston organized the home and encouraged Lincoln to read. Armed with that crucial skill, he would walk to Gentry's store, two miles away, where he occasionally found newspapers. In these, he learned of a miracle under way in a far-off state called New York. At the urging of Governor DeWitt Clinton, a great canal had been dug nearly 15 times as long as any previous American canal, connecting one end of the state to the other. Attacked and derided as government waste, the Erie Canal was carrying more freight within a few years than the entire Mississippi River. Thousands of hardscrabble farmers and isolated craftsmen people like the Lincolns were suddenly able to move their produce to distant markets, and the boom at the port of New York created thousands of new jobs. The New York governor also founded a bank where these 'penniless beginners' could 'save a surplus.' Their little savings could be gathered into the capital needed for further economic developmentan idea, historian Daniel Walker Howe writes, that 'seemed novel at the time' but proved to be a 'huge success.'

A. 어휘
iconic 聖像(성상)의. proper 진정한, 고유의, 적절한.
physical context 물리적 맥락(실제적 사실). the walk for water 우물까지의 거리.
barefoot 맨발. drafty 外風(외풍)이 들어오는. turn an ankle 발목을 삐다.
run a fever 열병을 앓다. trek 이주, 고된 여행. coffin 棺(관). cope with 대처하다.
abandon 버리다, 포기하다, 遺棄(유기)하다.
hardwood 참나무, 마호가니 등 재질이 단단한 나무. company 交友(교우).
panther 아메리카 라이온, 표범. filthy 불결한, 더러운.
deprived 極貧(극빈)의. cf. deprive 빼앗다, 파면하다, 박탈하다. arm 武裝(무장)하다.
crucial 결정적인, 중대한.
gentry 귀족 바로 아래 계급의 사람들, 좋은 집안에서 좋은 가정 교육을 받고 자란 사람들. Gentry's store 가계 이름. occasionally 가끔. miracle 기적.
learn of 들어서 알다. under way 진행중인. urge 재촉하다.
governor 州知事(주지사), 통치자. canal 運河(운하). deride 비웃다. freight 화물.
hardscrabble 빈곤한. isolated craftsmen 소속이 없는 장인들. produce 농산물.
surplus 남은 돈, 잉여자본. novel 새로운, 신기한.

B. 구문
- try as you might to put yourself. . . room, it's almost impossible.
cf. try as you might→however you might try
[그토록 무거운 물통을 들고 그토록 캄캄하고 외풍이 센 작은 방까지의 먼 길을 맨발로 가는 아이의 입장이 되어보려고 아무리 노력하여도 그것은 불가능한 일이다.]
- the modern world, temperature-controlled and professionally doctored.
cf. controlled...→which is controlled...
[실내온도가 조절되고 의사의 전문적인 치료를 받을 수 있는 현대세계]
- Attacked and derided →Though it was attacked and derided

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Lincoln had found a key to unlock the prison of poverty. Here was an upward path that did not depend on the favor of aristocrats or the force of arms. This was the vision that propelled him into politics. In Indiana, Lincoln experienced the liberating thrill of earning his first half-dollar, for ferrying a pair of strangers to a newfangled steamboat on the Ohio River. Later, having reached manhood, he helped his father move one more time, then left the farm without regret. He soon found himself in New Salem, Ill., a riverside village bursting with hopes, if only its little waterway could be widened for commercial traffic. With this ultimately fruitless project as his first grand undertaking, Lincoln began to puzzle his way toward the goal of becoming 'the DeWitt Clinton of Illinois.'

The Right to Rise
'He wanted the government to develop Illinois, to make it a great state in which success would be open to anyone, poor or rich,' says Gabor Boritt, a Lincoln scholar at Gettysburg College. Self-taught in economics (as in all other subjects), Lincoln subscribed to the Whig Party's belief that private investment alone was unreliable for creating the canals, railroads, bridges, highways and navigable rivers required for growth. When he emerged from the Indiana woods and moved quickly into the Illinois legislature, Lincoln championed a huge public-works program and a state-chartered bank to back it up.

A. 어휘
aristocrat 귀족, 귀족계급의 사람, 상류계급의 사람. favor 혜택.
the force of arms 武力(무력). ferry 나룻배로 건네다, 나룻배. manhood 성년.
move 이사하다. burst 가득 차다, 충만하다, 폭발하다. widen 넓히다.
ultimately 궁극적으로. fruitless 헛된, 무익한. undertaking 기획, 사업.
puzzle 苦心(고심)하며 나아가다. DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828): the Erie Canal을 건설한 뉴욕州 주지사. subscribe to 贊同(찬동)하다.
Whig Party 미국 독립전쟁 당시의 휘그당, 미국 민주당의 반대당(1834-55년경 성립).
navigable 航行(항행)이 가능한. legislature 미국의 州(주) 의회, 입법부.
charter 설립조항, 허가서, 憲章(헌장). state-chartered bank 州에서 설립한 은행.

B. 구문
- New Salem, Ill., a riverside village→New Salem, Ill., which is a riverside village