 ... 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
 | Fabian Arthur Goulstone Ware - 1901 - 336 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 Effects of the Industrial Revolution —... | |
 | Gustav von Schmoller - 1904 - 422 sider
...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 for a human creature to become. The uniformity of his stationary life naturally corrupts the courage of his mind, — it corrupts even... | |
 | Hartley Withers - 1928 - 676 sider
...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 for a human creature to become." 8 Two reactions to the Smithian prediction emerge from a contrast of the organizational yesterday and... | |
 | Oscar Douglas Skelton - 1911 - 460 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... | |
 | Du Bois Henry Loux - 1920 - 296 sider
...occasion to exert his understanding. 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." II. 301-2. 37. "A shepherd has a great deal of leisure; a husbandman, in the rude state of husbandry,... | |
 | 1922 - 310 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.11 Thus Smith would have the state intervene in behalf of the great labor population, whose... | |
 | Great Britain. Agricultural Tribunal of Investigation - 1924 - 422 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 to be acquired at the expense of his intellectual,... | |
 | Gordon S. Watkins - 1928 - 760 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... | |
 | Charles Ryle Fay - 1928 - 490 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... | |
 | Alastair Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, Harold Coffin Syrett - 1966 - 656 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" (Smith, Wealth of Nations, II, 298). In "Of Luxury" Hume wrote: "In times, when industry and arts flourish,... | |
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