NewHopeR
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Does "scorning to be careful, shamefully prodigal as well as admirably efficient" mean "scorning to be careful, scorning to be shamefully prodigal as well as scorning to be admirably efficient?"
Context:
We have squandered a great part of what we might have used, and have not stopped to
conserve the exceeding bounty of nature, without which our genius for enterprise would have been worthless and impotent, scorning to be
careful, shamefully prodigal as well as admirably efficient. We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto
stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical
and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years
through.
Context:
We have squandered a great part of what we might have used, and have not stopped to
conserve the exceeding bounty of nature, without which our genius for enterprise would have been worthless and impotent, scorning to be
careful, shamefully prodigal as well as admirably efficient. We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto
stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical
and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years
through.