That species of practicability eats into the moral sense of the people like a cancer, and he who practices it can no more be excused than an editor who debauches public decency in order to sell his paper.
In "The Strenuous Life," Roosevelt uses a strong metaphor to describe how corrupt political practicality erodes public morality, comparing it to an editor debauching decency for profit.
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