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The architecture of the houses, like the character of the society, was more ambitious than of old, but in far worse taste; in a taste, in fact, which had been corrupted by uninstructed pretension. The towns were larger, but they were tawdrier than ever. The spirit of traffic was gradually enveloping everything in its sordid grasp.
Millions of such men and women below him, he knew, had never been out of the city, had never seen beyond the little round of unintelligent grudging participation in the world's business, and unintelligent dissatisfied sharing in its tawdrier pleasures.
The scaffolding of much highly-prized sentiment would collapse, and the world of poetry and pageantry particularly that of the tawdrier and more vendible poetry and pageantry would be poorer by so much. The Man Without a Country would lose his pathetic appeal, or would at any rate lose much of it.
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