 | Gertrude Himmelfarb - Literary Collections - 2007 - 333 pages
...even more eloquently than Ruskin, deplored the effects of the division of labor, which rendered a man "as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. " This would be the condition of "the great body of the people, "Smith concluded, "unless government... | |
 | John E. Hill - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 290 pages
...life in a job requiring repetitive operations might develop great skill in his trade while becoming "as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become." He became incapable of judgment in political issues and unable to defend his country if there were... | |
 | Robert F. Barsky - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 401 pages
...nefarious effects; on this Smith said that the division of labor "will turn working people into objects as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to be."15 The antidote was government action, which should be initiated to overcome devastating market... | |
 | Hanno Schmitt - Education - 2007 - 242 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» (ebd., S. 782). Im Gegensatz zur Physiokratie, welche die ökonomische Dynamik der Gesellschaft durch... | |
 | Michael Lewis - Economic policy - 2007 - 1476 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... | |
 | Dennis Carl Rasmussen - Business & Economics - 2010 - 208 pages
...result, Smith writes — in as blunt a statement as can be found in his works — a laborer of this kind "generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become" ( WN Vif5o, 782). He follows this statement with a litany of criticism that surpasses anything Rousseau... | |
 | Richard Olson - Europe - 2008 - 370 pages
...the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out the 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 person to become."... | |
 | Satinder P. Gill - Computers - 2007 - 610 pages
...the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his intervention in finding our 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... | |
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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... 
