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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: far as you fancy; for fever and ague and rheumatism usually mean--
rain in the wrong place. But if you knew how much illness, and
torturing pain, and death, and sorrow arise, even to this very
day, from ignorance of these simple laws, then you would bear them
carefully in mind, and wish to know more about them. But now for
water being life to the beasts. Do you remember--though you are
hardly old enough--the cattle-plague? How the beasts died, or had
to be killed and buried, by tens of thousands; and how misery and
ruin fell on hundreds of honest men and women over many of the
richest counties of England: but how we in this vale had no
cattle-plague; and how there was none--as far as I recollect--in
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