... has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant... Education in the Nineteenth Century - Side 217redigeret af - 1901 - 274 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1832 - 572 sider
...removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant 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... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 870 sider
...removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and 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... | |
 | Schmoller - 1875 - 222 sider
...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... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - 1875 - 574 sider
...removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as 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... | |
 | Poor law conference - 1878 - 396 sider
...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 - 1883 - 564 sider
...removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as 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... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 554 sider
...removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as 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... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 548 sider
...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 sider
...understanding or to exercise his invention. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant 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 sider
...removing difficulties which never occur, lie naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally 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... | |
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