That range of economic activities which is concerned immediately with pecuniary competition has a tendency to conserve certain predatory traits; while those industrial occupations which have to do immediately with the production of goods have in the main the contrary tendency.

But with regard to the latter class of employments it is to be noticed in qualification that the persons engaged in them are nearly all to some extent also concerned with matters of pecuniary competition (as, for instance, in the competitive fixing of wages and salaries, in the purchase of goods for consumption, etc.).

Therefore the distinction here made between classes of employments is by no means a hard and fast distinction between classes of persons.
The employments of the leisure classes in modern industry are such as to keep alive certain of the predatory habits and aptitudes.

So far as the members of those classes take part in the industrial process, their training tends to conserve in them the barbarian temperament.

But there is something to be said on the other side.