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The philosophy of action for action, power for the sake of power, had become an established orthodoxy. “Thou has conquered, O go-getting Babbitt.” - Aldous Huxley
Attribution: Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British novelist. Eustace Barnack, in Time Must Have a Stop, ch. 12 (1944). In this passage the narrator reports Eustace Barnack’s thoughts and concludes with his reworking of Algernon Charles Swinburne’s poem “An Interlude,” “Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean” substituting Sinclair Lewis’s character who represents the ideology of small- town capitalism.

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