 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 דפים
...11 Priestley too 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; 12 and so did Godwin: 'Genius ... is not born with us, but generated subsequent to birth.' 13 Such... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 דפים
...Newton.'11 Priestley too 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;12 and so did Godwin: 'Genius ... is not born with us, but generated subsequent to birth.'13 Such... | |
 | Edith Tilton Penrose, Christos Pitelis - 2002 - 340 דפים
...equilibria; but what distinguishes Smith's treatment from preceding accounts is his assertion that 'the very different genius which appears to distinguish...not upon many occasions so much the cause, as the effects of the division of labour' (Smith, 1976B, p. 28). The division of labour is thereby transformed... | |
 | David C. Lindberg, Roy Porter, Ronald L. Numbers - 2003 - 956 דפים
...(New York: Routledge, 1998), pp. 125-44. THE PURSUIT OF THE PROSOPOGRAPHY OF SCIENCE William Clark The difference of natural talents in different men...appears to distinguish men of different professions ... is not upon many occasions so much the cause, as the effect of the division of labour. The difference... | |
 | Pierre Force - 2003 - 300 דפים
...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...are aware of; and the very different genius which appeats to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions... | |
 | William M. Dugger, Howard J. Sherman - 2003 - 328 דפים
...produce of its industry, or, rather, is precisely the same thing with that exchangeable value." 29 "The difference of natural talents in different men is in reality much less than we are aware of." Wealth of Nations, Book I, chap. ii. ?ft "Mil yi?ssn phil wphwhsn Vfto rwipngfn tritt nun Adam Smiih... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 494 דפים
...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,... | |
 | Chris Jenks - 2004 - 422 דפים
...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...are aware of; and the very different genius which 27 appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 דפים
...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... | |
 | Samuel Fleischacker - 2005 - 212 דפים
...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... | |
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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 up to maturity, is not upon many occasions BO much the... 
