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The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a didactic moral fable written in the 1860s by Reverend Charles Kingsley. Its themes include Christian redemption, support of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, and opposition to child labor. This illustration depicts the protagonist, having been newly transformed into a water baby, learning from a salmon and his wife of the existence of other water babies.