Where enthusiasts are ready to destroy or be destroyed for trifles magnified into importance by a squeamish conscience, it is not strange that the very name of conscience should become a byword of contempt to cool and shrewd men of business.
In an essay on the strenuous life, this passage reflects on how extreme enthusiasm and a "squeamish conscience" can lead practical people to disdain the concept of conscience.
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