The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his consumption also undergoes a specialisation as regards the quality of the goods consumed. He consumes freely and of the best, in food, drink, narcotics, shelter, services, ornaments, apparel, weapons and accoutrements, amusements, amulets, and idols or divinities.

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.

Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery

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