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We can see that Victorian Britain truly was preoccupied
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with that combination of excrement and water.
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All of this, of course, presupposed as well
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the emergence of a modern state.
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It was state power that alone provided the wealth
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and organizational structures that were needed to carry out
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this enormous project.
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And in turn we can see the causal chain working in both ways,
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because the sanitary movement was a very important factor
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in reinforcing state power.
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Its implementation meant that the state now invaded areas
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of life formerly regarded as private,