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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: without metals, without beasts of burthen, without letters,
without any sculpture that has left a trace, and yet with a
sense of astronomical fact clear enough to raise the great
gnomon of Silbury, and with a social system complex enough to
give the large and orderly community to which the size of
Avebury witnesses and the traffic to which the green roads
testify.
The doctor had not realized before the boldness and
liveliness of his companion's mind. Sir Richmond insisted
that the climate must have been moister and milder in those
days; he covered all the downlands with woods, as Savernake
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