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to come to this in the end, that it was the custom of the
country, and that the Erewhonians were a conservative peo-
ple; that the boy would have to begin compromising sooner
or later, and this was part of his education in the art. It was
perhaps to be regretted that compromise should be as nec-
essary as it was; still it was necessary, and the sooner the boy
got to understand it the better for himself. But they never
tell this to the boy.
From the book of their mythology about the unborn I
made the extracts which will form the following chapter.

1 Erewhon