...the understandings of the greater patt of men are necessatily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too arc, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding,...

...that the urban situation resulting from increased industrialization can be debilitating for the poor: "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" (Wealth...

...the understanding of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations has no occasion to exert his understanding. ... He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion,...

...general, however, specialization in scholarship also has its downside. It was Adam Smith who wrote, "The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations . . . becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become."25 Although...

...of the people, comes to be confined to a few very simple operations; frequentiy to one or two. . . . The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations . . . has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients...

...The understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a...same, has no occasion to exert his understanding.... He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid ... as it...

...division of labor for centuries to come. He recognized its detrimental effects on detail laborers: "The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations . . . has no occasion to exert his understanding. ... He generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as...

...the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations ... has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients...

...incurred when a person is converted to a tool of production, so that, as Adam Smith phrased it, he "has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention" and "he naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion and generally becomes as stupid and...

...in its bleakness Engels's descriptions seventy years later of the depravity of industrialized labor: "The man whose whole life is spent in performing a...exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removmg difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, his habit of such exertion,...