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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: use,[2] but so holy that the poorest peasant will not disturb
it. The Burmese believe the things of nature, but especially
the trees, to be the abode of spirits. "To the Burman of
to-day, not less than to the Greek of long ago, all nature
is alive. The forest and the river and the mountains are
full of spirits, whom the Burmans call Nats. There are all
kinds of Nats, good and bad, great and little, male and
female, now living round about us. Some of them live
in the trees, especially in the huge figtree that shades half-
an-acre without the village; or among the fern-like fronds of
the tamarind."[3]
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