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托斯丹·凡勃伦：有闲阶级论·摘录 102
托斯丹·凡勃伦《有闲阶级论》· The Theory of the Leisure Class · 投资
The character and exigencies of life, under that regime of status and of individual and class antithesis which covers the entire interval from the beginning of predatory culture to the present, argue that the traits of temperament here under discussion could scarcely have arisen and acquired fixity during that interval. It is entirely probable that these traits have come down from an earlier method of life, and have survived through the interval of predatory and quasi-peaceable culture in a condition of incipient, or at least imminent, desuetude, rather than that they have been brought out and fixed by this later culture. They appear to be hereditary characteristics of the race, and to have persisted in spite of the altered requirements of success under the predatory and the later pecuniary stages of culture. They seem to have persisted by force of the tenacity of transmission that belongs to an hereditary trait that is present in some degree in every member of the species, and which therefore rests on a broad basis of race continuity.
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定位：Excerpt 102 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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从掠夺文化开始到现在的身份与阶级对立体制下，所讨论的气质特质几乎不可能在此期间产生并固定。它们很可能来自更早的生活方式，在掠夺和准和平文化期间以萌芽或濒临废弃的状态幸存，而非由后期文化培养固定。它们似乎是种族的遗传特征，尽管成功条件改变仍持续存在，靠的是遗传传递的韧性，这种特质每个成员都有，因此基础广泛。
上下文
凡勃伦《有闲阶级论》论证某些人性特质源自更早文化，靠遗传延续而非后期培养。
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你身上哪些特质可能来自远古，却在现代生活中显得不合时宜？
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