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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: must recollect that one thing they meant to do, and did. They
recalled men to facts; they bid them ask of everything they saw--
What are the facts of the case? Till we know the facts, argument is
worse than useless.
Now the habit of asking for the facts of the case must deliver men
more or less from that evil spirit which the old Romans called
"Fama;" from her whom Virgil described in the AEneid as the ugliest,
the falsest, and the cruellest of monsters.
From "Fama;" from rumours, hearsays, exaggerations, scandals,
superstitions, public opinions--whether from the ancient public
opinion that the sun went round the earth, or the equally public
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