I spend every morning at my desk working on a book about the Trusts but my progress seems lamentably slow. However, it "do move." The worst of it is the work is really so distasteful. It keeps me poking about and scavengering in piles of filthy human greed and cruelty almost too nauseous to handle. Nothing but the sternest sense of duty and the conviction that men must understand the vices of our present system before they will be able to rise to a better, drives me back to my desk every day.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I spend every morning at my desk working on a book about the Trusts but my progress seems lamentably slow. However, it "do move." The worst of it is the work is really so distasteful. It keeps me poking about and scavengering in piles of filthy human greed and cruelty almost too nauseous to handle. Nothing but the sternest sense of duty and the conviction that men must understand the vices of our present system before they will be able to rise to a better, drives me back to my desk every day." in the context of "From a letter to his mother, as quoted in Henry Demarest Lloyd, 1847-1903, A Biography by Caro Lloyd, 1912, pages 188-189 https://archive.org/details/henrydemarestllo01lloyiala/page/189" to mean that wisdom is timeless.