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"In the progress of the division of labour, the employment of the
far greater part of those who live by labour, that is, of the great body of people,
comes to be confined to a few very simple operations, frequently one or two.
But 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,
of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same,
has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in
finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur.
He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes
as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
The torpor of his mind renders him, not only incapable
of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation,
but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment,
and consequently of forming any just judgement concerning many
even of the ordinary duties of private life." - Adam Smith