 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 542 páginas
...to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur, lie naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion,...as it is possible for a human creature to become. ... Of the great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging ; and... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 548 páginas
...which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes aa stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. ... Of the great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging ; and... | |
 | 1886 - 414 páginas
...performing a few simple operations has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion,...as it is possible for a human creature to become. But in every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the laboring poor, that is,... | |
 | John Mackintosh - 1896 - 532 páginas
...to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur, lie naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion,...becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a hnman creature to become. . . . The uniformity of his stationary life naturally corrupts the courage... | |
 | Gustav von Schmoller - 1904 - 422 páginas
...life is spent in performing a few simple operations has no occasion to exert his understanding. He generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. The uniformity of his stationary life naturally corrupts the courage of his mind, — it corrupts even... | |
 | Hartley Withers - 1928 - 676 páginas
...spent in performing a few simple operations . . . has no occasion to exert his understanding. ... He generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become." 8 Two reactions to the Smithian prediction emerge from a contrast of the organizational yesterday and... | |
 | Margaret McMillan - 1911 - 232 páginas
...this into which people are baked hard ? "In the progress of the division of labour," says Adam Smith, "the employment of the far greater part of those who...stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human being to become." This was written one hundred and fifty years ago, when the sub-division of labour... | |
 | Oscar Douglas Skelton - 1911 - 460 páginas
...division of labor, "unless government take some pains to prevent it," can be found than Adam Smith's: "The man whose whole life is spent in performing a...as it is possible for a human creature to become. . . . His dexterity at his own particular trade seems, in this manner, to be acquired at the expense... | |
 | Du Bois Henry Loux - 1920 - 286 páginas
...are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion,...as it is possible for a human creature to become." II. 301-2. 37. "A shepherd has a great deal of leisure; a husbandman, in the rude state of husbandry,... | |
 | 1922 - 310 páginas
...the abilities and virtues which that state requires, yet there are cases in which this is not true. The man whose whole life is spent In performing a...ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.11 Thus Smith would have the state intervene in behalf of the great labor population, whose... | |
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The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients... 
