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The need for finer manners where coarse vulgarity, aggressive obscenity, and raucous noisiness prevail, speaks for itself to those who seek escape from materialism. In an atmosphere of disorderly or non-existent manners, materialistic thought flourishes all the more.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 5 : Spiritual Refinement > # 54