The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
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“An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.”
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