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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: steel into soft, foul rust; how a candle cannot burn without it,
or you live without it. But what it is he knows not.
Will he ever know?
That is Lady Why's concern, and not ours. Meanwhile he has a
right to find out if he can. But what do you want to ask him
next?
What? Oh! What carbonic acid is. He can tell you that. Carbon
and oxygen gas.
But what is carbon?
Nobody knows.
Why, here is this stupid Analysis at fault again.
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