Curdie was the son of Peter the miner. He lived with his father and
mother in a cottage built on a mountain, and he worked with his
father inside the mountain. A mountain is a strange and awful
thing. In old times, without knowing so much of their strangeness
and awfulness as we do, people were yet more afraid of mountains.
But then somehow they had not come to see how beautiful they are as
well as awful, and they hated them - and what people hate they must
fear. Now that we have learned to look at them with admiration,
perhaps we do not feel quite awe enough of them. To me they are
beautiful terrors. I will try to tell you what they are. They are
portions of the heart of the earth that have escaped from the
dungeon down below, and rushed up and out. For the heart of the
earth is a great wallowing mass, not of blood, as in the hearts of
men and animals, but of glowing hot, melted metals and stones. And
as our hearts keep us alive, so that great lump of heat keeps the
earth alive: it is a huge power of buried sunlight - that is what
it is.
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