Both Uses of
barometer
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- Just as your body has two fundamental sensations, pleasure and pain, as signs of its welfare or injury, as a barometer of its basic alternative, life or death, so your consciousness has two fundamental emotions, joy and suffering, in answer to the same alternative.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(barometer) an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure