facts are habitually viewed changes.
The institution of leisure class is the outgrowth of an early discrimination between employments, according to which some employments are worthy and others unworthy.
The evidence afforded by the usages and cultural traits of communities at a low stage of development indicates that the institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life.
There is in all barbarian communities a profound sense of the disparity between man's and woman's work
upper classes are exempt from industrial employments, and this exemption is the economic expression of their superior rank.
The upper classes are by custom exempt or excluded from industrial occupations, and are reserved for certain employments to which a degree of honour attaches.
(2) subsistence must be obtainable on sufficiently easy terms to admit of the exemption of a considerable portion of the community from steady application to a routine of labour.
The conditions apparently necessary to its emergence in a consistent form are: (1) the community must be of a predatory habit of life
Likewise the earliest form of ownership is an ownership of the women by the able bodied men of the community.
practice of seizing women from the enemy as trophies, gave rise to a form of ownership-marriage, resulting in a household with a male head
