You put Faith in 'em.... I grant our labels are a bit
emphatic. Christian Science, really. No good setting people against the
medicine. Tell me a solitary trade nowadays that hasn't to be--emphatic.
It's the modern way! Everybody understands it--everybody allows for it."
"But the world would be no worse and rather better, if all this stuff of
yours was run down a conduit into the Thames."
"Don't see that, George, at all. 'Mong other things, all our people
would be out of work. Unemployed! I grant you Tono-Bungay MAY be--not
QUITE so good a find for the world as Peruvian bark, but the point
is, George--it MAKES TRADE! And the world lives on trade. Commerce! A
romantic exchange of commodities and property. Romance. 'Magination.
See? You must look at these things in a broad light. Look at the
wood--and forget the trees! And hang it, George! we got to do these
things! There's no way unless you do. What do YOU mean to do--anyhow?"
"There's ways of living," I said, "Without either fraud or lying."
"You're a bit stiff, George. There's no fraud in this affair, I'll bet
my hat.
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