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ch. 4 kicks ass

At this point Coxe anticipates what was to become a central theme in the ideology of American industrialism: the capacity of the New World environment to "purify" the system. Just as the American sun is a more potent bleaching agent, so the entire social climate of the new Republic will cleanse the factory system of its unfortunate feudal residues.