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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: cliff. Ogres, too--of whom you read in fairy tales--I am afraid
that there were such people once, even here in Europe; strong and
terrible savages, who ate human beings. Of course, the legends
and tales about them became ridiculous and exaggerated as they
passed from mouth to mouth over the Christmas fire, in the days
when no one could read or write. But that the tales began by
being true any one may well believe who knows how many cannibal
savages there are in the world even now. I think that, if ever
there was an ogre in the world, he must have been very like a
certain person who lived, or was buried, in a cave in the
Neanderthal, between Elberfeld and Dusseldorf, on the Lower Rhine.
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