Thorstein Veblen：The Theory of the Leisure Class, Excerpt 111

From what has been said, it appears that the leisure-class life and the leisure-class scheme of life should further the conservation of the barbarian temperament; chiefly of the quasi-peaceable, or bourgeois, variant, but also in some measure of the predatory variant. In the absence of disturbing factors, therefore, it should be possible to trace a difference of temperament between the classes of society. The aristocratic and the bourgeois virtues--that is to say the destructive and pecuniary traits--should be found chiefly among the upper classes, and the industrial virtues--that is to say the peaceable traits--chiefly among the classes given to mechanical industry.

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