... has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant... An Essay on the Law of Patents for New Inventions - Էջ viiiThomas Green Fessenden - 1822 - 427 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| 1922 - 310 էջ
...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.11 Thus Smith would have the state intervene in behalf of the great labor population, whose... | |
| Great Britain. Agricultural Tribunal of Investigation - 1924 - 422 էջ
...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 to be acquired at the expense of his intellectual,... | |
| Margaret Trabue Hodgen - 1925 - 336 էջ
...which the effects are perhaps always the same, becomes as stupid and as ignorant as it is possible to become. The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing any rational conversation but of conceiving any generous, noble or tender sentiment. ... Of the great... | |
| Gordon S. Watkins - 1928 - 760 էջ
...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... | |
| Charles Ryle Fay - 1928 - 490 էջ
...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. ... Of the great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging ; and... | |
| E. K. Hunt - 2002 - 308 էջ
...stated that "the man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations . . . generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become" (Smith 1970, p. 80). Forced into a condition of stupor and increasingly severely alienated, "the lot... | |
| Ziyad Marar - 2003 - 216 էջ
...or two . . . The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations . . . generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. Despite attempts to stem the rising tide of alienation (think of Marx and Engels urging 'workers of... | |
| Robert A. Emmons, Michael E. McCullough - 2004 - 392 էջ
...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...relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment... | |
| Deidre Dawson, Pierre Morère - 2004 - 356 էջ
...to perform monotonous, mindless tasks will eventually become emotionally and mentally incapacitated: "The torpor of his mind renders him, not only incapable...relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment... | |
| Eyal Chowers - 2004 - 278 էջ
...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. The uniformity of his stationary life naturally corrupts the courage of his mind, and makes him regard... | |
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