| Gustav von Schmoller - 1904 - 422 páginas
...Sîatur bilbet eben einmal if)re ©efc^öpfe ungleicb,". ScÇmoUet, Snuibfragen. '¿. üluft. 3 ab: The man whose whole 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... | |
| Adam Smith - 1904 - 574 páginas
...greater part ™Js'unieM~ of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The SkeY™!™' man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, to prevent it, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has... | |
| Karl Marx - 1906 - 880 páginas
...of the greater part of men," says Adam Smith, "are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations . . . has no occasion to exert his understanding. .... He generally becomes as stupid and ignorant... | |
| Adam Smith - 1914 - 478 páginas
...the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or... | |
| Hartley Withers - 1917 - 138 páginas
...degeneracy of the great body of the people." He goes on to show that, owing to the division of labour — " the man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations . . . has no occasion to exert his understanding. . . . His dexterity at his own particular trade seems,... | |
| Du Bois Henry Loux - 1920 - 286 páginas
...revenue." II. 234. 36. "The uniformity of his stationary life corrupts the courage of the labourer's mind The man whose whole life is spent in performing a...same, has no occasion to exert his understanding. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant... | |
| Oliver Frederick George Stanley (Rt. Hon.) - 1923 - 132 páginas
...technique be neglected. Adam Smith, it is worth while to recall, had a prevision of this danger. ' The man 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... | |
| Oliver Frederick George Stanley (Rt. Hon.) - 1923 - 132 páginas
...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. .... | |
| Great Britain. Agricultural Tribunal of Investigation - 1924 - 422 páginas
...the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employment. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations . . . has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients... | |
| Martha Woodmansee, Mark Osteen - 1999 - 468 páginas
...technology, but often complex capabilities at the individual level. As Smith 181 notes, the "civilized" man "whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations . . . has no occasion to exert his understanding, or exercise his invention. . . . He . . . generally... | |
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