Thorstein Veblen：The Theory of the Leisure Class, Excerpt 121

If this generalization as to the temperament of the boy among the working classes should be found true on a fuller and closer scrutiny of the field, it would add force to the view that the bellicose temperament is in some appreciable degree a race characteristic; it appears to enter more largely into the make-up of the dominant, upper-class ethnic type--the dolicho-blond--of the European countries than into the subservient, lower-class types of man which are conceived to constitute the body of the population of the same communities.

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