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It struck me as a wonderfully apt phrase to distinguish their way of thinking from the more usual. Of all the
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—the meals we eat, the clothes we wear, the beds we sleep in, bankbooks, and property deeds, of vested rights and established institutions, of the applause and approbation of the mob—which most of us consider important, they were cynical. I, for instance, must admit to a certain unreasoning respect for clean linen. It is hard for me, even in the face of ocular demonstration, to separate it from clean straight thinking. But this group which gathered at Mrs. Barton’s was certainly indifferent in the matter. Ann’s bacteriological training had made her a fervent apostle of cleanliness.
human
Germs, she would say,