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The Clean Living Movement of New York City

The clean living movement was a cultural phenomenon of we must abstain from all pleasures of the flesh in order to not become like these irish. Also, what gets tied into this around the same time is religious ideology. So there was a baptist preacher from new york called william miller, protestant baptist preacher,. He were kind of just taking a look around and taking a look at the lits of the slums of new york that i just mentioned, and just said, oh, my god, the world is going to end. This is so much sin. This is like sodom and gamara. Christ is going to come and cleanse this place with

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