 ... 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...  An Essay on the Law of Patents for New Inventions - Page viiiby Thomas Green Fessenden - 1822 - 427 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Davies Roberts - Education - 1901 - 298 pages
...division of labour the man concerned has ' no occasion to exert his understanding,' and so 'generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for...relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble or tender sentiment concerning many even of the ordinary duties... | |
 | Fabian Arthur Goulstone Ware - Business and education - 1901 - 338 pages
...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 —... | |
 | Great Britain. Board of Education - Education - 1902 - 908 pages
...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...relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment... | |
 | Edwin Cannan - Economics - 1903 - 458 pages
...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...relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment... | |
 | Gustav von Schmoller - Economics - 1904 - 422 pages
...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 - Banks and banking - 1928 - 676 pages
...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 - Socialism - 1911 - 460 pages
...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 - Classical school of economics - 1914 - 478 pages
...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...incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational coversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming... | |
 | Ellwood Patterson Cubberley - Education - 1920 - 724 pages
...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...relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment... | |
 | Du Bois Henry Loux - Democracy - 1920 - 296 pages
...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,... | |
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