...which the attainment is well worth all the toil and anxiety which we are so apt to bestow upon it. And it is well that nature imposes upon us in this manner....cultivate the ground, to build houses, to found cities and commonweaJths, and to invent and improve all the sciences and arts, which ennoble and embellish human...

...life." 1 The " pleasures of wealth," it is true, are vastly exaggerated by the imagination ; but " it is well that Nature imposes upon us in this manner....keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind." 2 One more quotation will enable us, by the help of a phrase which reappears in the Wealth of Nations,...

...life." 1 The " pleasures of wealth," it is true, are vastly exaggerated by the imagination ; but " it is well that Nature imposes upon us in this manner....keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind." 2 One more quotation will enable us, by the help of a phrase which reappears in the Wealth of Nations,...

...Irregularity of Sentiments.' (Reprint, p. 96.) 8 Part III., ch. v. (Reprint, p. 146.) » Ibid. p. 147. us in this manner. It is this deception which rouses...keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind.' 10 One more quotation will enable us, by the help of a phrase which reappears in the 'Wealth of Nations,'...

...Chapter 1) made considerable concessions to Mandeville's regard for the economic beneficence of luxury 'which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind'. " It was McCulloch who first called attention to Tucker as an originator of the ' Law of Markets'. (See...

...the attainment is well worth all the toil and anxiety which we are so apt to bestow upon it. - And it is well that nature imposes upon us in this manner....keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind. (TMS, iv, 1, §§ g-io) 25 Combined with this aesthetic motivation is vanity, the real or imagined...

...iii, p. 324. 53. Theory of Moral Sentiments, op. cit.. Ill, iii, p. 209. 54. Ibid., IV, I, p. 263. "It is well that Nature imposes upon us in this manner. It is this deception which rouses and keeps in motion the industry of mankind." 55. Ibid., IV, II, pp. 263-64. 56. Ibid., II, I, p. 109. 57. James...

...is likely to breed resentment, etc. However, the indirect effects are all to the good. 'And it is as well that nature imposes upon us in this manner. It is this deception'* which rouses and keeps in perpetual motion the industry of mankind' (p. 263). l9 This in turn promotes the accumulation of wealth.2"...

...which it is produced.12 "It is well," Smith adds, "that nature imposes upon us in this manner." For "it is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind."14 The invisible hand is at work. The rich are "usefully" induced to advance the interest...

...durch noch mehr Wohlstand und weiteren Aufstieg könnte er die erfahrene Enttäuschung überwinden. „It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind."45 Also, Enttäuschung und Selbsttäuschung halten den Wunsch aufzusteigen und damit die Motivation...