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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: you perhaps will go to Naples, and see in its famous museum the
curiosities which have been dug out of the ruined cities; and you
will walk, I suppose, along the streets of Pompeii and see the
wheel-tracks in the pavement, along which carts and chariots
rumbled 2000 years ago. Meanwhile, if you go nearer home, to the
Crystal Palace and to the Pompeian Court, as it is called, you
will see an exact model of one of these old buried houses, copied
even to the very paintings on the wells, and judge for yourself,
as far as a little boy can judge, what sort of life these
thoughtless, luckless people lived 2000 years ago.
And what had become of Vesuvius, the treacherous mountain? Half
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