...h to a greater extent than the latter. So it comes, for instance, that the American farmer and his wife and daughters are notoriously less modish in t... ...s the French peasant-pro- prietor parsimonious and frugal, and induces the American millionaire to found colleges, hospitals and museums. If the canon... ...l of the corset is not infrequent among the higher social classes of those American cities, for instance, which have recently and rapidly risen into o... ... other of two divergent purposes of economic life. T o adapt the classical terminology, they are institutions of acquisition or of production; or to r... ...n great part made up of extremely sanguinary locu- tions borrowed from the terminology of warfare. Except where it is adopted as a necessary means of ... ...lso foster a manly spirit, both in the participants and in the spectators. Football is the particular game which will probably first occur to any one ... ...r- acter and physique. It has been said, not inaptly, that the relation of football to physical culture is much the same as that of the bull-fight to ... ...tion and fullness of life in a ferine environment. The culture bestowed in football gives a product of exotic 174 The Theory of the Leisure Class fer... ... the sum of learning required of the scholar, and has thereby affected the terminology and diction employed 262 The Theory of the Leisure Class in th...

...takes the same delight in 45 Emerson subordinating every thing to the new terminology as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and... ... idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. They who made England, Italy, or Greece venerable in the imagina... ...r of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any, and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done ... ...s he looked out of this window, when he looked out of that,—whip him.” Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate per... ...ke a battle very little more dangerous to life than a match at foils or at football. Examples are cited by soldiers of men who have seen the cannon po...