...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." Habit and education make for most of the supposedly great gap between the philosopher and the common...

...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...

...the possibility for at least a future socioeconomic equality, Smith was very generous, holding that "the difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less that we are aware of," being "not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education." He was...

...came to be seen as a matter of nurture, not of nature. Thus Smith in that egalitarian year of 1776: The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of. ... The difference between ... a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise...

...way one from the other. It is education and happenstance that make the difference, as Smith remarked: "The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of. ... The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street...

...produce of its industry, or, rather, is precisely the same thing with that exchangeable value." 20 « The difference of natural talents in different men is in reality much less than we are aware of." Wealth of Nations, Book I, chap. it. and a theory which concerns itself with the natural course of...

...wanted." The trucking disposition, indeed, appears to account for the differences in talents among men: "The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of." In fact it almost appears that what is held to be due to nature, such as the difference between a philosopher...

...make ends meet. NATURAL TALENT. The difference of natural talent in different men is, in re ality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different...distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to majority is not, upon many occasions, so much the cause as the effect on the division of labor. The...

...zeer eenzijdig als een opvoedingsprobleem. Overeenkomstig deze opvatting merkt Adam Smith op 32) : „The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less thah we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions,...