...(New York: Routledge, 1998), pp. 125-44. THE PURSUIT OF THE PROSOPOGRAPHY OF SCIENCE William Clark The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions ... is not...

...latter is of it."125 He made the same point, in a slightly more subdued way, in The Wealth of Nations: The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appeats to distinguish men of different professions, when grown...

...whatever talent or genius he may possess lor that particular species ol business. The difference ol natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we arc aware ol; and the verv different genius which appears to distinguish men ol different pro1essions,...

...competition tends to select for each special task the individual who is best suited to perform it. The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which 27 appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown...

...bring to perfection whatever talent or genius he may possess for that particular species of business. The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown...

...theme that runs through both TMS and WN. The most explicit passage in this regard is WN l.ii.4 (28-9): The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown...

...Priestley for his part denied that there was anything special about Newton's mind; Adam Smith concurred: 'The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and so did Godwin: 435 'Genius ... is not born with us, but generated subsequent to birth.' Such Lockean...

...He presents the poor as people with the same native abilities as everyone else: "The difference in natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of," he says. Habit and education make for most of that supposedly great gap between the philosopher and...

...considers the different working abilities as mostly acquired as a consequence of the division of labour: The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown...

...meat; and he finds that he can thereby get more meat than if he himself went to the field to catch it. The difference of natural talents in different men, is, in reality, much less than we are aware of. By nature a philosopher is not in genius half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from...