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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: varieties of a thing for purposes of ostentation and
snobbishness, where one variety would do for use! Consider all
the waste incidental to the manufacture of cheap qualities of
goods, of goods made to sell and deceive the ignorant; consider
the wastes of adulteration,--the shoddy clothing, the cotton
blankets, the unstable tenements, the ground-cork life-
preservers, the adulterated milk, the aniline soda water, the
potato-flour sausages--"
"And consider the moral aspects of the thing," put in the
ex-preacher.
"Precisely," said Schliemann; "the low knavery and the ferocious
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