And , lastly , if he says -LRB- as he most certainly will -RRB- that these transformations only take place in the lower animals , and not in the higher , say that that seems to little boys , and to some grown people , a very strange fancy . For if the changes of the lower animals are so wonderful , and so difficult to discover , why should not there be changes in the higher animals far more wonderful , and far more difficult to discover ? And may not man , the crown and flower of all things , undergo some change as much more wonderful than all the rest , as the Great Exhibition is more wonderful than a rabbit-burrow ? Let him answer that . And if he says -LRB- as he will -RRB- that not having seen such a change in his experience , he is not bound to believe it , ask him respectfully , where his microscope has been ? Does not each of us , in coming into this world , go through a transformation just as wonderful as that of a sea-egg , or a butterfly ? and do not reason and analogy , as well as Scripture , tell us that that transformation is not the last ? and that , though what we shall be , we know not , yet we are here but as the crawling caterpillar , and shall be hereafter as the perfect fly . The old Greeks , heathens as they were , saw as much as that two thousand years ago ; and I care very little for Cousin Cramchild , if he sees even less than they . And so forth , and so forth , till he is quite cross . And then tell him that if there are no water-babies , at least there ought to be ; and that , at least , he can not answer . And meanwhile , my dear little man , till you know a great deal more about nature than Professor Owen and Professor Huxley put together , do n't tell me about what can not be , or fancy that anything is too wonderful to be true . `` We are fearfully and wonderfully made , '' said old David ; and so we are ; and so is everything around us , down to the very deal table . Yes ; much more fearfully and wonderfully made , already , is the table , as it stands now , nothing but a piece of dead deal wood , than if , as foxes say , and geese believe , spirits could make it dance , or talk to you by rapping on it . Am I in earnest ? Oh dear no ! Do n't you know that this is a fairy tale , and all fun and pretence ; and that you are not to believe one word of it , even if it is true ? But at all events , so it happened to Tom . And , therefore , the keeper , and the groom , and Sir John made a great mistake , and were very unhappy -LRB- Sir John at least -RRB- without any reason , when they found a black thing in the water , and said it was Tom 's body , and that he had been drowned . They were utterly mistaken .
XXXXX was quite alive ; and cleaner , and merrier , than he ever had been .
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