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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: the distant hill-tops: within the last ten years large spaces have been
enclosed, and self-sown firs are now springing up in multitudes, so close
together that all cannot live.
When I ascertained that these young trees had not been sown or planted, I
was so much surprised at their numbers that I went to several points of
view, whence I could examine hundreds of acres of the unenclosed heath, and
literally I could not see a single Scotch fir, except the old planted
clumps. But on looking closely between the stems of the heath, I found a
multitude of seedlings and little trees, which had been perpetually browsed
down by the cattle. In one square yard, at a point some hundreds yards
distant from one of the old clumps, I counted thirty-two little trees; and
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