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...lasses. The upper classes are by custom exempt or excluded from industrial occupations, and are re- served for certain employments to which a degree o... ... characteristic of being non- industrial. These non-industrial upper-class occupations may be roughly comprised under government, warfare, religious o... ...Neither the class distinctions nor the distinctions between leisure- class occupations are so minute and intricate. The Polynesian islanders generally... ... discrediting — in a mild and uncertain way —those government employments, military and civil, which require the wearing of a livery or uniform. With ... ...been worked out in various parts of the world; as, for instance, among the Japanese, Chinese, and other Ori- ental nations; likewise among the Greeks,... ...d with the pecuniary employments. Such are politics and ecclesiastical and military employments. The pecuniary employments have also the sanction of r... ...ure class, and almost exclusively among that class. The exceptions are (1) military and naval officers who are ordinarily members of the leisure class...

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...feeling was a very unpleasant one. Seven years before this he had given up military service, feeling sure that he had a talent for art, and had looked... ...to St. Petersburg, and reached its highest point when he entered the army. Military life in general depraves men. It places them in conditions of comp... ...higher rank than themselves. But when, to the usual depraving influence of military service with its honours, uniforms, flags, its permitted vio- lenc... ...ves unable to explain why), they felt that this faith defended their cruel occupations. If this faith did not exist it would have been more difficult,... ...” “Oh, yes. Well, what is it?” “Let us come in here.” They entered a small Japanese sitting-room, and sat down by the window. CHAPTER LVIII THE VICE-G... ...when he got into the habit of spending 20,000 roubles a year, those former occupations ceased to be regarded as a duty, and were forgotten, and he not... ...ff, and yet, though every interest of his life was thus centred, all these occupations were very wearisome. Now all his occupations related to other p...

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...rned a corner and somehow got sight of a sort of square near the prison. A military band was executing itself to the stolid delight of some handfuls o... ...wrote in proud letters above: “Punished for desertion. Six years of prison—military degradation.” It must have been five o’clock. Steps. A vast clutte... ...mposing a great letter or series of great letters to the civil and I guess military authori- ties of Orne on the subject of the injustice done to the ... ... previ- ous acquaintance of The Sheeney’s at La Santé; the similar- ity of occupations (or non-occupation; I refer to the profes- sion of pimp) having... ...had been in all the countries of all the world: “Australia girl fine girl— Japanese girl cleanest girl of the world—Spanish girl all right—English gir...

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...ntic alligator. The key was in her hand. Her dark hair, like the hair of a Japanese, had come down and covered her body and her face. Leonora lifted h... ...t of. He was that sort of person. Well, he was an unmistakable man, with a military figure, rather exaggerated, with bulbous eyes that avoided your ow... ...as that—that he could pick himself together again and go on with his daily occupations if—the girl, being five thousand miles away, would continue to ...

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...ers customs, institutions, beliefs, victories and defeats, recreations and occupations. We employ the word “experience” in the same pregnant sense. An... ... the elders are doing. In part, this sharing is direct, taking part in the occupations of adults and thus serving an apprenticeship; in part, it is in... ...ups becomes increasingly difficult except in the case of the less advanced occupations. Much of what adults do is so remote in space and in meaning th... ...nd the future state official and administrator and furnished the means for military, industrial, and political defense and expan- sion, it was impossi... ...ubordination of individuals to the superior interests of the state both in military defense and in struggles for international supremacy in commerce, ... ... politics, or journalism, or philanthropy, or ar- chaeology, or collecting Japanese prints, or banking. (ii) By an interest we also mean the point at ... ...and failures with nature than does political history—to say nothing of the military his- tory into which political history so easily runs when re- duc...

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...ed to inspire in him the horror of despotism.” This led him to give up the military career after two years’ trial. In 1834 he resigned his commission ... ...on among its members, it preserved its formal unity with that instinct for military discipline which characterizes the Ger- man nation. In the Reichst... ... agitations, the judiciary has uniformly upheld the power exercised by the military, and in no case has there been any protest against the use of such... ...e great bulk of agricultural work could be carried on by people whose main occupations are sedentary, and with only such a number of hours as would 6... ...e same popular objec- tion as at present to any large influx of Chinese or Japanese labor. Yet if Japan also were to become a Socialist State, the Jap... ...se who preferred to work less than the usual number of hours at recognized occupations, might be immeasurably preferable to anything that is possible ...