...sentiment and reason ; and ignorance is the mother of industry as well as of superstition. Keflection and fancy are subject to err, but a habit of moving...considered as an engine, the parts of which are men."* This view of the moral effects of the division of labour, which is at least equally important with...

...enlargement of their commonwealth, without making its interest an object of their regard or attention." ..." Many mechanical arts, indeed, require no capacity,...considered as an engine, the parts of which are men."* This view of the moral effects of the division of labour, which is at least equally important with...

...under a total suppression of sentiment and reason ; and ignorance is the mother of industry as well ae of superstition. Reflection and fancy are subject...considered as an engine, the parts of which are men."* This view of the moral effects of the division of labour, which is at least equally important with...

...History of Civil Society, ed. D. Forbes (Edinburgh, 1967), p. 182, and also p. 183: 'Manufactures. . .prosper most, where the mind is least consulted,...considered as an engine, the parts of which are men.' Ferguson repeated and further developed his eritique of the division oflabour at the end of his life...

...similar remark in his essay 'Of National Characters', Essays, p. 198. 208 WN.I.xi.p.8. 209 WN.Vif50. Cf. 'Manufactures, accordingly, prosper most, where the...considered as an engine, the parts of which are men' (Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society, D. Forbes (ed.), Edinburgh, 1966, pp. 182-3)....

...l966), p. 77. On the character of the modern division of labour, Ferguson wrote 'manufacturers . . . prosper most, where the mind is least consulted, and...considered as an engine, the parts of which are men', ibid., p. l83. 19 GWF Hegel, Earh' Theological Writings, trans. TM Knox (Chicago, l948), pp. l54, l56....

...most where the mind is least consulted, and where the workshop may, without any great effort of the imagination, be considered as an engine, the parts of which are men. (Ferguson [1767] 1966: 182-183) Enlightened mechanists such as Ferguson, Smith and Diderot, then, were...

...which the artist, attentive to his own affair, has invented, to abridge or to facilitate his separate task? In coming to this mighty end, every generation,...every branch, probably deserves a preference to that of the performer; and he who invented a tool, or could work without its assistance, deserved the praise...

...is worth recalling the most penetrating of these passages - one often cited since the time of Marx: Many mechanical arts, indeed, require no capacity;...considered as an engine the parts of which are men. (Ferguson 1995: 174) These comments, however, should not obscure the fact that Ferguson judges this...

...is worth recalling the most penetrating of these passages - one often cited since the time of Marx: Many mechanical arts, indeed, require no capacity;...considered as an engine the parts of which are men. (Ferguson 1995: 174) These comments, however, should not obscure the fact that Ferguson judges this...