the measure of all things. But there are no such things as water-babies. How do you know that ? Have you been there tosee ? And if you had been there to see, and had seennone, that would not prove that there were none. If 68 THE WATER-BABIES CHAP. Mr. Garth does not find a fox in Eversley Wood… … And no one has a right to say that no water-babies exist,till they have seen no water-babies existing; which isquite a different thing, mind, from not seeing water-babies ; and a thing which nobody ever did, or perhapsever will do. But surely if there were water-babies, somebodywould have caught…
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