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" This division of labour, from which so many advantages are derived, is not originally the effect of any human wisdom, which foresees and intends that general opulence to which it gives occasion. It is the necessary, though very slow and gradual, consequence... "
The Character and Logical Method of Political Economy - Page 214
by John Elliott Cairnes - 1875 - 229 pages
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - 1809 - 372 pages
...extensive utility ; the propensity te truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another. VOL. r. B Whether this propensity be one of those original principles...faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to inquire. It is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals,...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - 1822 - 522 pages
...thousand naked savages. CHAPTER II. Of the Principle which gives Occasion to the Divison of Labour. Tms division of labour, from which so many advantages...faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to inquire. It is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals,...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - 1835 - 486 pages
...occasion to the Division of Labour [Employments]. THIS division of labour [employments], from which BO many advantages are derived, is not originally the...faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to enquire. It is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals,...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 pages
...whether, a« Whether this propensity be one of those original principles in human nature, of which tn> seems more probable, it be the necessary consequence...faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to inquire. It is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals,...
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Principles of Social and Political Economy, Or, The Laws of the ..., Volume 1

William Atkinson - 1858 - 698 pages
...rudimentary or most simple elements of the science. The passage I allude to is as follows : — " This division of labour, from which so many advantages...faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to inquire. It is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals,...
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - 1869 - 576 pages
...wisdom, which foresees and intends that general opulence to which it gives occasion. It is the necessaiy, though very slow and gradual consequence of a certain...faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to inquire. It is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals,...
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The Character and Logical Method of Political Economy

John Elliot Cairnes - 1869 - 208 pages
...another. Whether this propensity be one of those original principles in human nature, of which 110 further account can be given, or whether, as seems...it belongs not to the present subject to inquire." In other words, he distinctly declines to "explain the laws of mind" under which division of labour...
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The Character and Logical Method of Political Economy

John Elliott Cairnes - 1875 - 230 pages
...discussed the question, his view may be inferred from the following passage : " The division of labor from which so many advantages are derived is not originally..."explain the laws of mind" under which division of labor takes place ; regarding them as facts not to be explained, but to be taken notice of and reasoned...
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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. A careful ...

Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...naked savages. CHAP. II. — Of the Principle which gives Occasion to the Division oj Labour. THIS division of labour, from which so many advantages...faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to inquire. It is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals,...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - 1880 - 486 pages
...in human nature which has in view no such extensive utility ; the propensity to truck, barter, and 1 exchange one thing for another. Whether this propensity...faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to our present subject to inquire. It is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals,...
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