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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: housed roomily, rose the enormous trunk full forty feet in girth,
towering like some tall lighthouse, smooth for a hundred feet, then
crowned with boughs, each of which was a stately tree, whose
topmost twigs were full two hundred and fifty feet from the ground.
And yet it was easy for the sailors to ascend; so many natural
ropes had kind Nature lowered for their use, in the smooth lianes
which hung to the very earth, often without a knot or leaf. Once
in the tree, you were within a new world, suspended between heaven
and earth, and as Cary said, no wonder if, like Jack when he
climbed the magic bean-stalk, you had found a castle, a giant, and
a few acres of well-stocked park, packed away somewhere amid that
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