slum

is a reservoir of physical and moral death, an enormous expense to the state, a constant menace to society, a reality whose shadow is at once colossal and portentous.

F33 The slums of our cities are the reservoirs of physical and moral death, an enormous expense to the state, a constant menace to society, a reality whose shadow is at once colossal and portentous. In time of social upheavals they will prove magazines of destruction... for, while revolution will not originate in them, once let a popular uprising take form and the cellars will reinforce it in a manner more terrible than words can portray.

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