 | Ziyad Marar - Education - 2003 - 216 pages
...frequently to one or two . . . 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. Despite attempts to stem the rising tide of alienation (think of Marx and Engels urging 'workers of... | |
 | E. K. Hunt - Business & Economics - 2002 - 308 pages
...who had stated that "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" (Smith 1970, p. 80). Forced into a condition of stupor and increasingly severely alienated, "the lot... | |
 | Adam Smith - Business & Economics - 2004 - 260 pages
...always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing...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... | |
 | Christopher Winch, John Gingell - Education - 2004 - 184 pages
...always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing...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... | |
 | Eyal Chowers - History - 2004 - 278 pages
...effects too are perhaps always the same ... has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing...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... | |
 | Robert A. Emmons, Michael E. McCullough - Psychology - 2004 - 392 pages
...always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing...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... | |
 | John Macdonald - Business & Economics - 2004 - 264 pages
...out expedients for 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." That doesn't sound as if Smith wanted the workers to hang up their brains along with their caps when... | |
 | Jay Schulkin - Medical - 2004 - 388 pages
...out expedients for 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. iWealth of Nations, 1776, pp. 734-735i Owing to the fact that workmen . . . have been taught ... by... | |
 | Arthur Rich - Christian ethics - 2006 - 736 pages
...same, has no 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.26 Smith thus understands the already much-discussed connection between work and personality27... | |
 | Domenico Losurdo - Philosophy - 2004 - 404 pages
...Smith. In the Wealth of Nations, he contrasts the wage laborer who, because of the monotony of labor, "generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become," a person unable to take part "in any rational conversation" or of "conceiving any generous" sentiment,... | |
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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 exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention, in finding out expedients... 
