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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: improve nothing, and therefore cannot better himself, but must
remain from father to son, and father to son again, a stupid,
pitiful, ridiculous ape, while men can go on civilising
themselves, and growing richer and more comfortable, wiser and
happier, year by year--how that comes to pass, I say, is to me a
wonder and a prodigy and a miracle, stranger than all the most
fantastic marvels you ever read in fairy tales.
You may find the flint weapons which these old savages used buried
in many a gravel-pit up and down France and the south of England;
but you will find none here, for the gravel here was made (I am
told) at the beginning of the ice-time, before the north of
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