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Updated: May 20, 2025
He hadn't much to say, but when he did speak, spoke to the purpose. "Here are some of the things the fluent Paris 'cockney' said...for the type corresponds in Paris to the lower-class cockney of London.
A couple of hours later, a messenger entered our room at the hotel, without knocking, in Russian lower-class style, and demanded thirty kopeks for the signature. I offered to pay for the stamp on the spot, and supply the remaining twenty-five kopeks when furnished with an adequate reason therefor. "Is the captain's signature worth so much?" I asked. "That is very little," was the answer.
It has become prescriptive to such an extent that an adherence to conservative views is comprised as a matter of course in our notions of respectability; and it is imperatively incumbent on all who would lead a blameless life in point of social repute. Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar.
It has already been pointed out that these latter classes, which live by, rather than in, the industrial process, are roughly comprised under two categories the leisure class proper, which is shielded from the stress of the economic situation; and the indigent classes, including the lower-class delinquents, which are unduly exposed to the stress.
As a general rule the classes that are low in economic efficiency, or in intelligence, or both, are peculiarly devout as, for instance, the Negro population of the South, much of the lower-class foreign population, much of the rural population, especially in those sections which are backward in education, in the stage of development of their industry, or in respect of their industrial contact with the rest of the community.
These men are lower-class criminals, and their wretched appearance betrays the utter absence of hygienic considerations on the part of the Turkish prison authorities; they evidently have had no cause to complain of any harsh measures for the enforcement of personal cleanliness.
Moreover, the designs of the lower-class women are not nearly so complex as those of the higher class, and they are generally tatued free-hand. The fingers are very simply tatued with a zigzag on the carpal knuckles and transverse lines across the joints; the thumb is decorated in a slightly different way. In Dr.
If this generalization as to the temperament of the boy among the working classes should be found true on a fuller and closer scrutiny of the field, it would add force to the view that the bellicose temperament is in some appreciable degree a race characteristic; it appears to enter more largely into the make-up of the dominant, upper-class ethnic type the dolicho-blond of the European countries than into the subservient, lower-class types of man which are conceived to constitute the body of the population of the same communities.
This reluctance to avow an unduly intimate knowledge of the lower-class conditions of life in detail of course prevails in very different degrees in different individuals; but there is commonly enough of it present collectively in any organization of the kind in question profoundly to influence its course of action.
Nowadays guns "command" nothing. Under all this traffic the roads remained hard and smooth, for gangs of men, with scrapers and steam-rollers were at work everywhere repairing the wear and tear. This work is done by peasants, who are too old for the army, middle-aged, sturdily built fellows who perform their prosaic task with the resignation and inexhaustible patience of the lower-class Italian.
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