Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08802_Field_TCGG T567.txt

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     around us. The upper classes were more concerned to
     adorn life than to make it comfortable, to make
     themselves illustrious rather than rich.
          Even in the middle classes a man was not entirely
     devoted to the pursuit of comfort; the pursuit was often
     abandoned for the desire of higher and more refined
     pleasures; some other good rather than money was
     everywhere the objective. ‘I know my countrymen,’ wrote
     a contemporary, in a style fantastic but not wanting in
     pride, ‘clever at melting and dissipating the metals, but
     not ready to give them continuous worship; they will be
     quite ready to return to their ancient idols—valor, glory,
     and, I make bold to say, magnanimity.’