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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: the North Pole itself, the still axle of the spinning world; and
sink in death around it, and become white snow-clad ghosts.
But will they live again, those chilled air-mothers? Yes, they
must live again. For all things move for ever; and not even
ghosts can rest. So the corpses of their sisters, piling on them
from above, press them outward, press them southward toward the
sun once more; across the floes and round the icebergs, weeping
tears of snow and sleet, while men hate their wild harsh voices,
and shrink before their bitter breath. They know not that the
cold bleak snow-storms, as they hurtle from the black north-east,
bear back the ghosts of the soft air-mothers, as penitents, to
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