...employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the eifects ate always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or exercise his invention, in finding out expedients for removing difficulties that never occur. He naturally...

...concentration of the attention ' on the performance of a single and sometimes very simple opera' tion.' The evil is pointed out by Adam Smith in a passage...same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to * out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He ' naturally loses, therefore, the...

...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- ,jor to exercise his invention in finding out expedients/or removing difficulties which never occur....

...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 invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses,...

...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 understandmg,jor to exercise his invention in finding out expedientsTor removing difficulties which...

...«tuple operations, of which the effects, too, «re perhaps always the same, or very nearly the name, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention, 6nding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the...

...to employ 1,200 men. The workingman whose whole life is spent in 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, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant...

...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. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant...

...whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations ', he wrote, ' of which the effects are always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding. . . . Of the • great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging....

...spent in performing a few simple operations ', he wrote, ' of which the effects are always the saml^ or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding. . . . Of the great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging. ....