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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: older place, it seemed a poor little heap of stones; it did
not even dominate the landscape; it was some way from the
crest of the swelling down on which it stood and it was
further dwarfed by the colossal air-ship hangars and
clustering offices of the air station that the great war had
called into existence upon the slopes to the south-west. "It
looks," Sir Richmond said, "as though some old giantess had
left a discarded set of teeth on the hillside." Far more
impressive than Stonehenge itself were the barrows that
capped the neighbouring crests.
The sacred stones were fenced about, and our visitors had to
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