I conclude from the foregoing disquisition that our moral “decay” is the natural if gradual dissolution of a once-puritan moral code that lost both its agricultural basis and rural environment, and that is slowly, with costly trial and error, evolving into a new code that is better adjusted to contemporary industry and technology, with a background of urban or suburban life, lengthened adolescence, smaller families, advanced education, religious doubt, free press, profuse publication, widened and accelerated communication and transport, and an unprecedented dissemination of comforts,
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