 | Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth - Education - 1862 - 866 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 difficulties which never occur, lie naturally loses, therefore, the habit of exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 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... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1869 - 616 pages
...expedients for 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.1 The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1875 - 574 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 being to... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 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... | |
 | Schmoller - Economics - 1875 - 222 pages
...whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations has no occasion to exert his understandig. 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... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1875 - 546 pages
...expedients for 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 being to become. The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing or taking a part... | |
 | Poor law conference - 1878 - 396 pages
...against, he has no necessity to call into play his powers of invention. What is the result ? The man generally becomes as " stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become." Wherever we find stupidity and ignorance supreme, there we find also an undue proportion of pauperism.... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - Great Britain - 1883 - 548 pages
...useful article until combined with some other 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 aa stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - Great Britain - 1883 - 1044 pages
...useful article until combined with some other 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... | |
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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... 
