This work's chapter on "Devout Observances" begins with a caveat that the truth and beauty of the anthropomorphic cults considered are "of too grave import to find a place in so slight a sketch.
This work's chapter on "Devout Observances" begins with a caveat that the truth and beauty of the anthropomorphic cults considered are "of too grave import to find a place in so slight a sketch." It describes the coercive factors of industrial exemption in a chapter on "The Conservation of Archaic Traits." It calls gambling "another subsidiary trait of the barbarian temperament" in "The Belief in Luck." Hailed as social satire by Howells, this work introduced the term for attempting to surpass a neighbor in wealth status, pecuniary emulation. Focusing on the titular economically useless group, FTP name this work that coined the term conspicuous consumption, written by Thorstein Veblen.
This work's chapter on "Devout Observances" begins with a caveat that the truth and beauty of the anthropomorphic cults considered are "of too grave import to find a place in so slight a sketch.
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