...well aware of the enhancement of productivity emergent with division of tasks. "By having separated the arts of the clothier and the tanner, we are the better supplied with shoes and with cloth." But then we are told that "to separate the arts which form the...

...Solidarity. Like Durkheim, Ferguson focuses on the social division of labour. 'By having separated the arts of the clothier and the tanner, we are the better supplied with shoes and with cloth' (p. 384). Nothing very contentious here, and Mr Smith was due very...

...certain examples. tends to improve the practice of them. and to promote their ends. By having separated the arts of the clothier and the tanner. we are the better supplied with shoes and with cloth.' Economic specialization is seen in most positive terms. yet what...

...fecure his dominion over this mutinous and refractory people. THE fubdivifion of arts and profeflions, in certain examples, tends to improve the practice...arts we mean to improve. By this feparation, we in efiect deprive a free people of what is neceflary to their fafety ; or we prepare a defence againft...

...with the destruction of the moral personality and the dissolution of the state: By having separated the arts of the clothier and the tanner, we are the better supplied with shoes and with cloth. But to separate the arts which form the citizen and the statesman,...

...the eighteenth. As Ferguson put it in his Essay on the History of Civil Society: By having separated the arts of the clothier and the tanner, we are the better supplied with shoes and with cloth. But to separate the arts which form the citizen and the statesman,...