| Adam Smith - Economics - 1801 - 448 pages
...therefore, the habit of fuch exertion, and generally becomes as ftupid and ignorant as it is poffible for a human creature to become. The torpor of his mind renders him, not only incapable of relifliing or bearing a part in any rational converfation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or... | |
| 1832 - 572 pages
...whole life is spent in per' forming a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, per' haps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion...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... | |
| Scottish periodicals - 1832 - 952 pages
...losi:.«, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it iu possible for a human creature to become. The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of judging ; and unless very particular paina have been taken to lender him otherwise, he is equally incapable... | |
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1869 - 616 pages
...necessary in order to prevent the almost entire corruption and degeneracy of the great body of the people. In the progress of the division of labour, the employment...ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.1 The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any... | |
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1869 - 870 pages
...employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the cllects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly...ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.1 The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any... | |
| Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1875 - 546 pages
...man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion...stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human being to become. The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing or taking a part... | |
| Schmoller - Economics - 1875 - 222 pages
...whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations has no occasion to exert his understandig. 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... | |
| Poor law conference - 1878 - 396 pages
...against, he has no necessity to call into play his powers of invention. What is the result ? The man generally becomes as " stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become." Wherever we find stupidity and ignorance supreme, there we find also an undue proportion of pauperism.... | |
| Henry Mayers Hyndman - Great Britain - 1883 - 552 pages
...the capitalist, but what he produces is not in itself a useful article until combined with some other has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise...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 - Great Britain - 1883 - 1044 pages
...the capitalist, but what he produces is not in itself a useful article until combined with some other has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise...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... | |
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