 | Oscar Douglas Skelton - Socialism - 1911 - 348 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... | |
 | Oscar Douglas Skelton - Socialism - 1911 - 350 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. . . . His dexterity at his own particular trade seems, in this manner, to be acquired at the expense... | |
 | Margaret McMillan - Education - 1911 - 232 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." This was written one hundred and fifty years ago, when the sub-division of labour... | |
 | Ellwood Patterson Cubberley - Education - 1920 - 718 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... | |
 | Du Bois Henry Loux - Democracy - 1920 - 296 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." II. 301-2. 37. "A shepherd has a great deal of leisure; a husbandman, in the rude state of husbandry,... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1922 - 1116 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 ami ignorant as it is possible for a human creature... | |
 | Education - 1922 - 310 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Agricultural Tribunal of Investigation - Agriculture - 1924 - 422 pages
...performing a few simple operations . . . 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... | |
 | Gordon S. Watkins - Industrial efficiency - 1928 - 760 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 Ryle Fay - Great Britain - 1928 - 490 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 to... | |
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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... 
