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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: when they are struck; and who watches their doubles
fantastically dancing in the water as they are carried across
the stream.[175] To minds, even in civilized countries, which
are unused to the severe training of science, no stronger
evidence can be alleged than what is called "the evidence of
the senses"; for it is only long familiarity with science
which teaches us that the evidence of the senses is
trustworthy only in so far as it is correctly interpreted by
reason. For the truth of his belief in the ghosts of men and
beasts, trees and axes, the savage has undeniably the evidence
of his senses which have so often seen, heard, and handled
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