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" And it is well that nature imposes upon us in this manner. It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind. "
The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 583
1808
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the ...

Adam Smith - Ethics - 1817 - 776 pages
...which the attainment is well worth all the toil and anxiety which we are so apt to bestow upon it. And it is well that nature imposes upon us in this manner....cultivate the ground, to build houses, to found cities and commonweaJths, and to invent and improve all the sciences and arts, which ennoble and embellish human...
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The Economic journal, Volume 34

1924 - 702 pages
...life." 1 The " pleasures of wealth," it is true, are vastly exaggerated by the imagination ; but " it is well that Nature imposes upon us in this manner....keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind." 2 One more quotation will enable us, by the help of a phrase which reappears in the Wealth of Nations,...
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The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Economic ..., Volume 34

Economics - 1924 - 812 pages
...life." 1 The " pleasures of wealth," it is true, are vastly exaggerated by the imagination ; but " it is well that Nature imposes upon us in this manner....keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind." 2 One more quotation will enable us, by the help of a phrase which reappears in the Wealth of Nations,...
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Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the ..., Volume 94

British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1925 - 622 pages
...Irregularity of Sentiments.' (Reprint, p. 96.) 8 Part III., ch. v. (Reprint, p. 146.) » Ibid. p. 147. us in this manner. It is this deception which rouses...keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind.' 10 One more quotation will enable us, by the help of a phrase which reappears in the 'Wealth of Nations,'...
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Adam Smith's Concept of the Economic Man

George Carpenter Ingelow - 1928 - 176 pages
...was an optimist, tnd regarded the scheme in its entirety as the one best suited to our needs. "And it is well that nature imposes upon us in this manner....keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind. .... The earth by these labours of mankind has been obliged to redouble her natural fertility, and...
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On Revolutions and Progress in Economic Knowledge

T. W. Hutchison - Business & Economics - 1978 - 376 pages
...Chapter 1) made considerable concessions to Mandeville's regard for the economic beneficence of luxury 'which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind'. " It was McCulloch who first called attention to Tucker as an originator of the ' Law of Markets'. (See...
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The Science of a Legislator: The Natural Jurisprudence of David Hume and ...

Knud Haakonssen - History - 1989 - 254 pages
...the attainment is well worth all the toil and anxiety which we are so apt to bestow upon it. - And it is well that nature imposes upon us in this manner....keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind. (TMS, iv, 1, §§ g-io) 25 Combined with this aesthetic motivation is vanity, the real or imagined...
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Adam Smith: Critical Assessments, Volume 1

John Cunningham Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 872 pages
...iii, p. 324. 53. Theory of Moral Sentiments, op. cit.. Ill, iii, p. 209. 54. Ibid., IV, I, p. 263. "It is well that Nature imposes upon us in this manner. It is this deception which rouses and keeps in motion the industry of mankind." 55. Ibid., IV, II, pp. 263-64. 56. Ibid., II, I, p. 109. 57. James...
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Adam Smith: Critical Assessments, Volume 4

John Cunningham Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 344 pages
...is likely to breed resentment, etc. However, the indirect effects are all to the good. 'And it is as well that nature imposes upon us in this manner. It is this deception'* which rouses and keeps in perpetual motion the industry of mankind' (p. 263). l9 This in turn promotes the accumulation of wealth.2"...
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The Grammar of Social Relations: The Major Essays of Louis Schneider

Louis Schneider - Social Science - 426 pages
...which it is produced.12 "It is well," Smith adds, "that nature imposes upon us in this manner." For "it is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind."14 The invisible hand is at work. The rich are "usefully" induced to advance the interest...
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