What evidence from "conservation as a national duty" supports the inference that roosevelt believes the focus on industrialization and accumulation has negatively affected the character of american citizens?

The conference of governors was held at the white house in 1908, and it was led by president Theodore Roosevelt. The focus of the conference was  the natural resources and their right use.

The president began the conference with the speech "Conservation as a National Duty". From this speech, we can quote "So great and so rapid has been our material growth that there has been a tendency to lag behind in spiritual and moral growth"; these words support the inference that Roosevelt believes that the focus on industrialization and accumulation has negatively affected the character of American citizens.

what excerpt? i would generally think a.

first of all the mood needs to be defined: it is obviously a mood of deceitful relief and serenity. why? because the cape horn is one of the most violent maritime regions of earth and although it has been left behind, it is a personification of ahab’s delirium and the fact that the end of the passage speaks about it about being “hidden” but “raving” immediately conveys the feeling the calm is not permanent but fleeting.

furthermore, the oxymoron “mild stun'sails” is the first instance of such feeling as the adjective “mild” is associated with “stunned” underscoring the fleeting nature of this “tranquil” moment. and the contrasts keep piling up, with the opposition between “dark den” and “blessed light and air” to end with the final conclusion that leaves the reader with the uneasy knowledge that this is just a reprieve.