 The understandings 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...  Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - Page 423by Karl Marx - 1906 - 869 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - Inventions - 1822 - 524 pages
...very simple operations ; frequently to one or two. But ihe understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments....life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too, are perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to... | |
 | 1829 - 298 pages
...speaks of the manufacturer in language that must have been exaggerated, even in his day. He says, 14 the man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too, are perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 pages
...very simple operations; frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments....life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to... | |
 | Education - 1843 - 446 pages
...very simple operations, frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments....life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert... | |
 | George Moody - Education - 1843 - 444 pages
...very simple operations, frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments....life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert... | |
 | 1843 - 454 pages
...very simple operations, frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments....life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert... | |
 | Charles Hall - Civilization - 1850 - 276 pages
...simple operations ; frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men arc necessarily formed by their ordinary employments....life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1852 - 476 pages
...very simple operations ; frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments....life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, arc perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to... | |
 | Richard Whately - Civilization - 1855 - 396 pages
...very simple operations; frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments....life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to... | |
 | Richard Whately - Civilization - 1855 - 398 pages
...very simple operations; frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments....life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to... | |
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