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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 had fallen in by accident from above. And why? (For there is
a Why? to that question: and not merely a How?) Simply because
they were men; and because God has put into the hearts of all men,
even of the lowest savages, some sort of reverence for those who
are gone; and has taught them to bury, or in some other way take
care of, their bones.
But how is the swallow-hole sure to end in a cave?
Because it cannot help making a cave for itself if it has time.
Think: and you will see that it must be so. For that water must
run somewhere; and so it eats its way out between the beds of the
rock, making underground galleries, and at last caves and lofty
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