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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 Place of Science in Modern Civilization - Page 119
by Thorstein Veblen - 2007 - 520 pages
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 41

Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1776 - 526 pages
...confequence of exchanging one thing for another ; .whether a propenfity to fuch exchange be one of thofe original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given, ; or whether, as fee ins more probable, it be the neceffary confequence of the faculties of reafon and fpeech. Dr. Smith...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 526 pages
...propenfity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another. WHETHER this propenfity be one of thofe original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given; or whether, as feems more probable, it be the neceflary confequence of the faculties of reafon and fpeech, it belongs...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - Economics - 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...further account can be given, or whether, as seems more probable, it be the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to...
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The Works of Adam Smith, LL.D. and F.R.S. of London and Edinburgh:: The ...

Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 520 pages
...propenfity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another. Whether this propenfity be one of thofe original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given ; or whether, as feems more probable, it be the neceflary confequence of the faculties of reafon and fpeech, it belongs...
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The Works of Adam Smith, Volume 2

Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 582 pages
...propenfity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another. • Whether this propenfity be one of thofe original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given ; or whether, as feems more probable, it be the neceffary confequence of the faculties of reafon and ipeech, it belongs...
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The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 530 pages
...truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another. Whether this propenfity be one of thofe ori. ginal principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given ; or whether, as feems more probable, it be the neceffary confequence of the faculties of reafon and fpeech, it belongs...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - Economics - 1822 - 522 pages
...CHAPTER II. Of the Principle which gives Occasion to the Divison of Labour. Tms division of labour, from which so many advantages are derived, is not...further account can be given ; or whether, as seems more probable, it be the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - Economics - 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...further account can be given; or whether, as seems more probable, it be the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech, it belongs not to...
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The character & logical method of political economy, lectures

John Elliott Cairnes - 1857 - 204 pages
...the point at which the inquiry of the political economist properly ceases. " The division of labour is the necessary, though very slow and gradual, consequence...further account can be given, or whether, as seems more probable, it be the necessary consequence of the faculties of reason and speech, it belont/s not to...
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Principles of Social and Political Economy, Or, The Laws of the ..., Volume 1

William Atkinson - Economics - 1858 - 698 pages
...task of considering, investigating, and proving, by adopting the declaration, that the principle is one of those original principles in human nature, of which no further account can be given than that of merely declaring it to be a fact ; and, moreover, that it is a principle into the character...
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