MDDM ch.69: "Tis the Duck Speaking, naturally" [666]

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"Enigmata of the Invisible World" ?

"Voice unlocaliz'd" ?

"act[ing] powerfully as a moral Center" ?

" "What about 'care'? Don't you care?" " ?

Odd that the narrator, here, would put in the mouth of
the mechanical Duck the most direct moral questions
asked thus far in our progress along the line, and then 
add the deliberately reflexive: "or, rather, artificially..." 

The tone is Wicksian, imo, but the whole passage, beginning
with "Hark! Hark! You wonder?" and terminating with
"Don't you care?" seems to beg the question- not just
about the morality of earning one's living by being part
of a Sha producing "Visto-Engine"- but of any moral which
might be engendered in any number of audiences, from
the drawing room to the reader of M&D, by it's telling-
be it by localized narrator or omniscient (or immanent, for
that matter}.

Not to mention, the questioning of the morality of
"objectivity"- enlightened intellectual curiosity-
knowledge for knowledge sake, by a very emblematic
artifact of The Age.