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Citas

• “Who does not remember the remarkable chapter by which Adam Smith opens his inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations?”

• “For thousands of years in succession to grow one’s food was the burden, almost the curse, of mankind. But it need be so no more.”

• ““Now,” Mr. Thomson added, “they are sold at the tenth or twentieth part of the above prices. Cheap coal--cheap grapes; that is the whole secret.””

• ““Through the eyes and the hand to the brain”--this is the true principle of economy of time in teaching.”

• “Man is conspicuous by his absence from those meadows; he rolls them with a heavy roller in the spring; he spreads some manure every two or three years; then he disappears until the time has come to make hay.”