HERMIONE ON SUPERFICIALITY
AREN't you just crazy about the Moral Uplift?
It's coming into every department of life now and one just simply has to keep up with it in order to talk intelligently these days.
Not that one can talk too freely about it in mixed company, you know.
There are getting to be the awfullest lot of moral subjects that one can't talk about generally, aren't there?
Eugenics and sex hygiene and all these plays and books with a moral purpose, you know.
Of course lots of people do talk about them generally. I did myself for quite a while. And then another girl and I got some books and studied up what the things we had been talking of really were and it shocked us horribly!
Mamma has been trying to get me to give up the moral uplift entirely, but you've just simply got to talk it or be out of date.
Of course the whole thing depends upon whether you are a serious thinker—if you're sincere, really
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