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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: of the first question, How were the heather-moors made? And yet
we have not talked about a hundredth part of the things about
which these very heather-moors ought to set us thinking. But so
it is, child. Those who wish honestly to learn the laws of Madam
How, which we call Nature, by looking honestly at what she does,
which we call Fact, have only to begin by looking at the very
smallest thing, pin's head or pebble, at their feet, and it may
lead them--whither, they cannot tell. To answer any one question,
you find you must answer another; and to answer that you must
answer a third, and then a fourth; and so on for ever and ever.
For ever and ever?
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