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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 expedients for... "
The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 13
1832
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The Edinburgh Observer: Or, Town and Country Magazine, Issues 1-11

1817 - 292 pages
...employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the eifects ate always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or exercise his invention, in finding out expedients for removing difficulties that never occur. He naturally...
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The Eclectic Review

1832 - 816 pages
...concentration of the attention ' on the performance of a single and sometimes very simple opera' tion.' The evil is pointed out by Adam Smith in a passage...same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to * out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He ' naturally loses, therefore, the...
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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. With a comm ...

Adam Smith - 1839 - 448 pages
...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- ,jor to exercise his invention in finding out expedients/or removing difficulties which never occur....
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The English Journal of Education, Volume 1

George Moody - Education - 1843 - 444 pages
...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 invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses,...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 4

Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart - Economics - 1843 - 506 pages
...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 understandmg,jor to exercise his invention in finding out expedientsTor removing difficulties which...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith - Economics - 1884 - 604 pages
...«tuple operations, of which the effects, too, «re perhaps always the same, or very nearly the name, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention, 6nding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the...
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Union Pacific Employes' Magazine, Volume 1

Railroads - 1886 - 414 pages
...to employ 1,200 men. The workingman whose whole life is spent in 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, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant...
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Science of Theocratic Democracy

Du Bois Henry Loux - Democracy - 1920 - 286 pages
...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. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant...
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The Way Out: Essays on the Meaning and Purpose of Adult Education

Oliver Frederick George Stanley (Rt. Hon.) - Adult education - 1923 - 132 pages
...whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations ', he wrote, ' of which the effects are always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding. . . . Of the • great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging....
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The Way Out: Essays on the Meaning and Purpose of Adult Education

Oliver Frederick George Stanley (Rt. Hon.) - Adult education - 1923 - 132 pages
...spent in performing a few simple operations ', he wrote, ' of which the effects are always the saml^ or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding. . . . Of the great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging. ....
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