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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: will feel that novels and story-books are scarcely worth your
reading, as long as you can read the great green book, of which
every bud is a letter, and every tree a page.
Wonder if you will. You cannot wonder too much. That you might
wonder all your life long, God put you into this wondrous world,
and gave you that faculty of wonder which he has not given to the
brutes; which is at once the mother of sound science, and a pledge
of immortality in a world more wondrous even than this. But
wonder at the right thing, not at the wrong; at the real miracles
and prodigies, not at the sham. Wonder not at the world of man.
Waste not your admiration, interest, hope on it, its pretty toys,
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