Excerpt from The Theory of Business Chap. I. Time affords him an Opportunity for selecting a kind of occupation for which by natural aptitude or acquired ability he is best qualified. Skill from concentration of mind is Often exhibited in articles of every-day use, which might well excite surprise. Look, for instance, at. The veneering of the joiner; how exquisite is its finish! It is hard to believe that the block of wood before us is not'a single piece, but consists of a thin coating of costly material spread over a ...
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Excerpt from The Theory of Business Chap. I. Time affords him an Opportunity for selecting a kind of occupation for which by natural aptitude or acquired ability he is best qualified. Skill from concentration of mind is Often exhibited in articles of every-day use, which might well excite surprise. Look, for instance, at. The veneering of the joiner; how exquisite is its finish! It is hard to believe that the block of wood before us is not'a single piece, but consists of a thin coating of costly material spread over a common deal. This is a familiar but striking example of skill springing from the division of occupations. Be sides thus increasing skill, division of labour augments vastly the amount of pro ducts. All classes of society experience the benefit of the prodigious expansion of industry which has occurred especially during the last fifty years, in the greater pro fusion as well as superior quality of the commodities placed at their disposal. It is not necessary to' go. Back much beyond half a century to arrive at the time when prosperous shopkeepers in the leading thoroughfares of London were without that now necessary article of farni ture, a carpet, in their ordinary sitting-rooms. Luxury, in this particular, seldom went further with them than a well-scoured floor strewn with sand, and the furniture of the apartment was by no means inconsistent with this primitive and, as we should now say, comfortless state of things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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