...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...removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally . . . becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. . . . But in...

...economist Adam Smith saw clearly the effects of the industrial revolution on the human soul: "The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations...exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention. He generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become." In Fiddler...

...example is provided by Adam Smith's discussion of work under conditions of an extreme division of labour: '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 extend his understanding,...

...labor, the source of national wealth, with the simple but pleasant equality of barbarous societies. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. . . . His...

...But " the man whuse whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of whieh the effeets too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no oeeasion to exert his understanding, or to exereise his invention in finding out expedients for removing...

...kept alive, and the mind is not suffered to fall into . . . drowsy stupidity" (1976b: 302-4). However, the man whose whole life is spent in performing a...expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. . . . His dexterity at his own particular trade seems, in this manner, to be acquired at the expence...

...Karl Marx a century and a half ago. Smith wrote, in the course of an argument for public education: "The man whose whole life is spent in performing a...his understanding, or to exercise his invention in fmding out expedients for removing difficulties which never recur. He naturally loses, therefore, the...

...the understandings of the greater part of men are formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations....his understanding. or to exercise his invention in fmding out expedients for difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses. therefore. the habit...

...the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their different employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a...which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients...

...commercial society, the division of labour often reduces work to a 'few very simple operations', and 'the man whose whole life is spent in performing a...which the effects too are, perhaps always the same . . . has no occasion to exert his understanding ... He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such...