 | 1832 - 572 pages
...whole life is spent in per' forming a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, per' haps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion...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... | |
 | Scottish periodicals - 1832 - 952 pages
...losi:.«, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it iu possible for a human creature to become. The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of judging ; and unless very particular paina have been taken to lender him otherwise, he is equally incapable... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1875 - 574 pages
...man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 552 pages
...the capitalist, but what he produces is not in itself a useful article until combined with some other has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise...as it is possible for a human creature to become. ... Of the great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging ; and... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - Great Britain - 1883 - 1044 pages
...the capitalist, but what he produces is not in itself a useful article until combined with some other has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise...as it is possible for a human creature to become. ... Of the great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging ; and... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - Great Britain - 1883 - 542 pages
...to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur, lie naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion,...as it is possible for a human creature to become. ... Of the great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging ; and... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - Great Britain - 1883 - 548 pages
...which never 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 to become. ... Of the great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging ; and... | |
 | Railroads - 1886 - 414 pages
...performing a few simple operations has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion,...as it is possible for a human creature to become. But in every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the laboring poor, that is,... | |
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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... 
