Read the excerpt below and answer the question. the memory of lincoln, the mention of his name, came like a refreshing breeze from off the prairie, blowing aside all the scholarly implications in which i had become so reluctantly involved, and as the philosopher spoke of the great american “who was content merely to dig the channels through which the moral life of his countrymen might flow,” i was gradually able to make a natural connection between this intellectual penetration at oxford and the moral perception which is always necessary for the discovery of new methods by which to minister to human needs. in this excerpt, the prairie is used as a symbol for slavery democracy the civil war abraham lincoln