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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: ignorant than you (happily) can conceive, when he sat scratching
on ivory in the cave the figures of the animals he hunted, was
proving thereby that he had the same wonderful and mysterious
human nature as you--that he was the kinsman of every painter and
sculptor who ever felt it a delight and duty to copy the beautiful
works of God.
Sometimes, again, especially in Denmark, these savages have left
behind upon the shore mounds of dirt, which are called there
"kjokken-moddings"--"kitchen-middens" as they would say in
Scotland, "kitchen-dirtheaps" as we should say here down South--
and a very good name for them that is; for they are made up of the
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