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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: one place, when he lighted up the magnesium, he found himself in a
hall full 300 feet high--higher far, that is, than the dome of St.
Paul's--and a very solemn thought it was to him, he said, that he
had seen what no other human being ever had seen; and that no ray
of light had ever struck on that stupendous roof in all the ages
since the making of the world. But if he found out something
which he did not expect, he was disappointed in something which he
did expect. For the Indians warned him of a hole in the floor
which (they told him) was an unfathomable abyss. And lo and
behold, when he turned the magnesium light upon it, the said abyss
was just about eight feet deep. But it is no wonder that the poor
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