 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...tin- same, has no occasion to exert his undtrst-indin;i, or to exercise his invention, in finding ont expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the huhit of >uch exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 pages
...no occasion to exert his understanding- ,jor to exercise his invention in finding out expedients/or 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... | |
 | Education - 1840 - 130 pages
...of teaching, he observes, " that from having no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients, for removing difficulties which never occur, he loses the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for... | |
 | Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart - Economics - 1843 - 506 pages
...has no occasion to exert his understandmg,jor to exercise his invention in finding out expedientsTor 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... | |
 | Richard Whately - Economics - 1847 - 344 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... | |
 | Charles Hall - Civilization - 1849 - 280 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 human nature to become.... | |
 | Charles Hall - Civilization - 1850 - 270 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 human nature to become.... | |
 | Richard Whately - Civilization - 1855 - 396 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... | |
 | Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth - Education - 1862 - 664 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...exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as is possible for a human creature to become. The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of... | |
 | Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth - Education - 1862 - 462 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...exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as is possible for a human creature to become. The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of... | |
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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... 
