F

fashion. See dress (attire)

fashionableness (up-to-dateness), 173–178, 186–187

feasts, 75–76, 78

feet, deformed, 149

fighting

an archaic trait, 253

in boys, 250–254

in girls, 251

in inferior classes, 249

predation not the same, 19

in the predatory stage, 246–247

puerile nature, 254

in the South, 326

finance, a pecuniary employment, 230

fishing (angling), 255, 257, 258, 260

flowers, 132, 138

football, 261–262

furniture, 131

G

gambling, 276, 290, 294–295, 300, 326

gender differences

in consumption in predatory stage, 69

division of labor determined by, 4, 5, 13–14, 22

exploit vs. drudgery coincides with, 13

gentility

inherited, 76

transmissible, 55

gentle blood

its basis, 55

in spurious leisure class, 76–77

See also good breeding [on this page]; manners

gentleman of leisure

arrested spiritual development of, 253–254

connoisseurship a prerequisite, 74–75

divine assurance and imperious complaisance the birthright and criterion, 52–53

dress compared to a priest's, 308–309

dress enhances native dignity, 170–171

leisure of the lady and lackey compared to his, 57–58, 59–60

most highbred, where found, 46

reflected honour radiates from, 79

See also leisure class

Germanic culture

middle class in, 72

student dueling in, 250, 397

student inebriety in, 397

gift-giving, 75

gipta, 280

girls, fighting in, 251. See also women

God, 302

golf, 94

good breeding

mimicked by snobs, 50–51

waste of time evidence of, 51

See also gentle blood [on this page]; manners

government

leisure class, suitable employment for, 2, 40

predatory, not productive, 40, 79, 247, 383

repute from vs. repute from wealth, 30

grazing, as an alternative to workers, 135

grounds, 135–139

H

habits, standards of decency as, 106–108

habits of thought

in agricultural industry, 283–284

change in, 203

conspicuous waste guides, 116

of devout people, 304

evolution of, 188, 189, 192–193

fostered by anthropomorphic cults, 300

in industrial workers, 232–233, 241, 283

institutions equated to, 190, 191, 213

an organic whole, 289

of the poor, 319–320

hamingia, 280, 281

handicraft movement, 162, 163

handicraftsmen, 283–284, 329

handmade products, machine-made vs., 127–128, 159–162, 165

Hawaii, feather mantles from, 152–153

heraldry

its predilection for the rapacious, 18

symbol of exploit, 44

the hereditary present, 215–216, 218–219

higher learning

archaic survivals in, 368–369, 374, 378

athletics challenging the classics for leadership in leisure class learning, 397

cap and gown, 368, 372, 374

the classics in, 394–395, 396–398

"college spirit," 255

college sports, 298–299, 378–379, 397

conservatism of, 377, 378, 379–380

devout observances in, 377–378

flower of scholasticism and classicism, 387

fraternities, 379

humanities in, 371, 380, 382, 390–396

innovation in, 380–381

leisure class ideals permeate, 364, 374

leisure class patronage, 381–382

mimicry of higher by lower learning institutions, 369–370

priests in origins of, 367–369

priests replaced by captains of industry, 374–375

purpose, ostensible, 379

ritualistic practices, 368–374, 377

sciences in, 368, 382, 383, 386, 388, 390

vicarious leisure in origins of, 364, 365, 367

vs. lower learning, 367, 391–394

wealth's influence on, 371–372, 374

women in, 375–377

higher wants, 85, 107–109, 168

holidays, 309–310

the "home," defined, 355

honesty, 224

honour, esteem

ability to pay its basis in industrial communities, 84

from charitable efforts, 340–341

from conservatism, 199–200

from conspicuous consumption vs. conspicuous leisure, 85–87

from consuming in due quantity and quality, 73–74, 75

from elegant diction, 398–399

evidence of leisure time a prerequisite, 43–44

evidence of wealth or power a prerequisite, 36–37

from expensive vices, 70–71

hierarchy of reputability in employments, 231–232

a higher want, 107

honourable work, 15–18

from industrial employment vs. pecuniary employment, 231

from inheritance, 29

from knowledge of dead languages, 395

from knowledge of the humanities, 391–392, 397

from predation vs. from wealth, 28

from predatory traits, 263–264

productive labour inconsistent with, 38, 41

from proficiency in manners, 49, 50, 75

reflected honour, 79

religion a substitute for the disesteemed, 30

servants enhance, 56

in the South, 326

from spelling English correctly, 399

from unproductive consumption of goods, 69

from war, 247

waste a prerequisite, 85, 96–97

from wealth, 26, 28–31, 85

See also reputability, standards of

horses

draught, 139

fast, 142–144

saddle, 145

household duties, 58–59, 82, 96

household industry movement, 162

households

men not described as ornaments of (chief or otherwise), 180

women's purview, 179–180

human nature

adaptation and variation in, 213–218, 221, 223, 225, 238–239, 289, 338

devout observances, emulation complementary elements, 292

from economics point of view, 265–267

man as an agent, 15

proto-anthropoid, 361–362

humanities, 371, 380, 382, 390–396

hunting, hunters, 4, 40–41, 79, 256, 257, 260