Later Charles Gould justifies the mine's purpose in terms of security and justice for "an oppressed people." His readiness to blow up the mine contradicts that justification, but it doesn't contradict this deeper motivation. Blowing up the mine to prevent it being criminally seized by Montero is fully consistent with an ideal of "moral success" that is focused on the mine itself. Neither is this ideal contradicted by Charles' descent into corrupt methods to keep the mine running: as long as the mine becomes a moral success, his personal moral success is unimportant. For Charles Gould, the Allegory of Materialism, the goal is quite literally the "moral success" of material.