Urban life filled with materialism and excitement distracts the mind from true purpose and exposes youth to moral hazards.
Draft interpretation · MH 364.1
Original passage
Life in the cities is false and artificial. The intense passion for money getting, the whirl of excitement and pleasure seeking, the thirst for display, the luxury and extravagance, all are forces that, with the great masses of mankind, are turning the mind from life's true purpose. They are opening the door to a thousand evils. Upon the youth they have almost irresistible power.
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