I wished to frighten the country
” Perhaps you will be surprised to be told that I failed in my purpose, when you know of all the uproar that The Jungle has been creating. But then that uproar is all accidental, and was due to an entirely different cause. I wished to frighten the country by a picture of what its industrial masters were doing to their victims; entirely by chance I had stumbled on another discovery — what they were doing to the meat-supply of the civilized world. In other words, I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. “
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, with supplemental readings.
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