HIST-UA 105 Lecture Notes - Primogeniture, Barter, Human Nature
25 Apr 2014
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The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labour (13) Ch2: human nature the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another (21) But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only (22) He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and shew them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them. (22) It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages (22)
