N

narcotics consumption, 70

Native Americans, 4

natural rights, 288

necessaries of life

household duties as, 58

origins in wasteful items, 99–100

the subsistence minimum, 107

Negroes, 125, 322, 326, 328

non-invidious comparison

defined, 239

evidence of its legitimacy, 341

leisure class canon accommodating, 335–336, 338–339, 341, 351, 362, 389–390

negatively favored by pecuniary employments, 352

prerequisite to modern industry, 241

production its basis, 208

See also invidious comparison

Norwegian peasants, 366

novelty, 152–153, 177–178

O

occupations. See employments

ontogeny recapitulating phylogeny, 252–253, 253–254

orthography, English, 399

ownership, private property

defined, 22, 23

emulation as motive for, 25–26

ends served by, 24–25

origins in seizure, slavery, stealth, 27–28

pecuniary employments, the purview of, 230

sacredness of, 117–118

of women, 22–24

P

parks, 135, 138

patriarchal tradition

defined, 71

limits on women's consumption of luxuries, 72

patronage (Maecenas function), 381–382

peaceable stage of industry

armed retainers disappear, 79

characteristics, 16

class lines vague, 84

conspicuous consumption more important than conspicuous leisure, 86

consumption in, 73

defined, 73, 94

ethnic reversion to, 215

housewives in, 96

instinct of workmanship in, 94–96, 221

vicarious consumption in, 79

peaceableness, 18–21, 219–220, 225, 337

pecuniary aptitudes, 246

pecuniary beauty (beauty enhanced by expensiveness)

in architecture, 153–154, 349

in dress, 131–132, 168–169

in flowers, 132

in grounds, 138–139

superior gratification of, 126, 128, 130–131, 132–133, 149–150, 169

See also conspicuous waste

pecuniary employment

aptitudes suited to, 239–240

honour higher than from industrial employment, 231

industrial employment compared to, 229–231, 239–240

leisure class, an entrance to, 229, 235

non-invidious comparison negatively favored by, 352

predatory traits in, 229–230, 336

quasi-predatory, 336

pecuniary emulation

acquisition its basis, 208

in industrial communities, 110

leisure class its basis, 244

notions of divinity affected by, 124

in predatory stage, 38–39

pecuniary emulation (continued)

social workers not exempt from, 350

standards rise with increases in wealth, 31–34

See also emulation

pecuniary man, the ideal compared to the ideal lower-class delinquent, 237–238

pecuniary strength. See ability to pay

personal servants

carriers of leisure class attitudes, 243

distinguished from other servants, 54–56, 63

evidence of wealth and power, 56–57, 59, 62–63

for the household rather than its head, 66–67

importance declining, 64–65

labour largely nominal, ceremonial, 57–58

leisure of, 57–58, 59–60

men replace women, wives, 57

origins, 63

priests compared to, 182–183, 312

in quasi-peaceable stage, 53–54, 63

slaves compared to, 63

today, why kept, 65–66

training in subservience, 60–62

wife's exemption from productive labour, 54–56

women's dress compared to theirs, 182

philanthropy, 234, 316, 340, 348

polite usage. See manners

Polynesia, Polynesians

adzes as products of wasted effort, 152–153

chiefs, deaths from abstention from labour, 42–43

represent earlier stage of barbarian culture, 2

the poor

conservatism of, 204

devout observances in, 319–320, 322

missions of culture to, 344–346

power, personal servants evidence of, 56–57, 59, 62–63

predatory animus, 105

predatory emulation, 270, 278, 291

predatory stage, 63

aggression an accredited form of action, 17

animism and anthropomorphism in, 289–290

business a derivative of, 210

ceremonial observances important, 47

chauvinistic patriotism in, 197, 246–247

emulation in, outcomes of, 16–17, 23–24

energy now diverted to ostensibly useful ends, 95

ethnic reversion to, 215

force and fraud characteristic, 225, 236, 273–274

gender-based differences in consumption, 69

hereditary present represented by, 216

labour associated with subservience in, 17, 36

leisure class scheme of life rooted in, 197

manners important, 47

margin above subsistence a prerequisite, 20–21

martial spirit in, 246–247

pecuniary emulation in, 38–39

prerequisite for a leisure class, 7

primitive culture compared to, 220–221

productive labour shunned, 38–39

reversion to, 197–198

status in, 301

tenacity of purpose in, 237

thrift in, 38–39

wealth in, 38

women the inferior class, 69

predatory traits, predation

in brachycephalic-brunettes, dolichoblonds and Mediterranean types, 217, 225

business based on, 210

decline in reputable non-industrial outlets, 338, 360, 361

defined, 275

from economics point of view, 265–267

ephemeral variants of underlying propensities, 360

fighting not the same, 19

government as, 40, 79, 247

honour, esteem conferred by, 263–264

in industrial society, 262, 264

industrial society, not directly serviceable to, 262

instinct of workmanship expressed by, 292

in leisure class, 336–337

manifestations classed as exploit, 255

martial spirit, 246–247, 248–249

men's work, 14–15

pecuniary employment related to, 229–230, 336

prevalence varies by class, 264–265

repute from predation vs. repute from wealth, 28

self-esteem accentuated by, 301

status a consequence of habitual, 291

unsuited to modern life, 218, 360

warfare as, 40, 79, 247

preternatural agents. See anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic cults

priests

ameliorative work by, 341–342

codes of proprieties for, 312, 315–316

dress of, 182–183, 308

half-caste, 313–315

higher learning originates with, 367–369

knowers of the unknowable, 365–366

labour, exemption from, 123, 310–312

leisure class, suitable employment for, 1, 2

origins in sympathetic magic, 368

a pecuniary employment, 231

personal servants compared to, 182–183, 312

replaced by captains of industry in higher learning, 374

vicarious consumption in, 312

primitive culture

animate vs. inert things in, 12

animism in, 289–290

anthropomorphism in, 289

barbarian culture compared to, 6–7, 220–221

emulation in, 16

honourable activities in, 17–18

peaceableness of, 18–21, 219–220, 225

status in, 289

traits unsuited to modern life, 223–224

printers, 89–91

prison reform, 339

privacy, 112

private life, 112

private property. See ownership, private property [on this page]

prizefighting (boxing), 255, 271

production

industry based on, 208

non-invidious comparison based on, 208

progress, 196

proprieties. See codes of proprieties

protective mimicry, 327

prowess

anthropomorphism correlated with, 290

defined, 291

psychological inertia. See conservatism

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