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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: At which answer, it seems to me, another sneer might curl the lip
of the august shade, as he said to himself: "This, at least, I
did not expect, when I made Christianity the state religion of my
empire. But you, good barbarian, look clean enough. You do not
look on dirt as a sign of sanctity?"
"On the contrary, sire, the upper classes of our empire boast of
being the cleanliest--perhaps the only perfectly cleanly--people
in the world: except, of course, the savages of the South Seas.
And dirt is so far from being a thing which we admire, that our
scientific men--than whom the world has never seen wiser--have
proved to us, for a whole generation past, that dirt is the
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