The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.