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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: - as folks sometimes fear he never will - that does not prove that
there are no such things as foxes. And as is Eversley Wood to all
the woods in England, so are the waters we know to all the waters
in the world. And no one has a right to say that no water-babies
exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite
a different thing, mind, from not seeing water-babies; and a thing
which nobody ever did, or perhaps ever will do.
"But surely if there were water-babies, somebody would have caught
one at least?"
Well. How do you know that somebody has not?
"But they would have put it into spirits, or into the ILLUSTRATED
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