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Updated: May 10, 2025
My word for it, and it's something, if they had anything darker in Sodom; if they had in Babylon a state of degradation more hardened of crime; if in Egypt there existed a benightedness more stubbornly opposed to the laws of God-than is to be found in that New York; that city of merchant princes with princely palaces; that modern Pompeii into which a mighty commerce teems its mightier gold, where a coarse throng revel in coarser luxury, where a thousand gaudy churches rear heavenward their gaudier steeples, then I have no pity for Sodom, not a tear to shed over fallen Babylon, and very little love for Egypt."
Palford found himself forced to exclaim mentally not once, but a hundred times, in the course of their talk. There was this revealed itself as the interview proceeded just one slight palliation of his impossible benightedness: he was not the kind of young man who, knowing nothing, huffily protects himself by pretending to know everything.
"We demand the right to present our case and our cause to the unlettered mass, whose benightedness and ready prejudices continually invite exploitation. "We demand the right to vaccinate credulous inexperience against Bolshevism and kindred plagues. "We demand the right to render all whose kind we deem fit to fight for our flag fit to vote and prosper under its folds.
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