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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: Have you done wrong in asking me? No, my dear child; no. You
have asked me because you are a human being and a child of God,
and not merely a cleverer sort of animal, an ape who can read and
write and cast accounts. Therefore it is that you cannot be
content, and ought not to be content, with asking how things
happen, but must go on to ask why. You cannot be content with
knowing the causes of things; and if you knew all the natural
science that ever was or ever will be known to men, that would not
satisfy you; for it would only tell you the CAUSES of things,
while your souls want to know the REASONS of things besides; and
though I may not be able to tell you the reasons of things, or
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