"Veblen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wherein hunting and fighting were the only manly occupations, have left their heavy impress. The predacious instinct and the combative instinct weigh down and disfigure our economic development. What Veblen calls "the instinct of workmanship" grows on, slowly and irresistably; but the malign features of our industrial life are distinctively androcentric: the desire to get, of the hunter; interfering with ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
