Does fornication mean sex in this paragraph?
The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth,
have carried this device to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a
range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and
animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying
and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business
and fornication.
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yes, fornication by definition it means sex between two people who are not married to each other
and this paragraph in general has a tone of being "tongue in cheek".
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Yes.
And specifically sex with people to whom the thinker is not married.
The author is making fun of Americans by jokingly saying that we talk in cliches so that we can think about money and sex while we're talking.
He isn't wrong :).
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