...if he partakes in that prevailing desire to better his condition, which, as the same author says, " comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go to the grave," he will be impelled to add more and more to his capital, by turning into that channel...

...assumed, they construct a theory. Thus, Mr. Macculloch states that " the wish to augment our fortunes comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave." This may be the case: generally in Scotland, but it is not so in Ireland, and it is not so universally...

...lady rides for exercise. The merchant toils for wealth. The soldier fights for glory." a wish that comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave — is the cause of wealth being saved and accumulated." — Macculloch. "It is the interest of every...

...als hij zegt: //the desire of bettering our condition, though // generally caltn and dispassionate , comes with us from // the womb, and never leaves us...go into the // grave. In the whole interval which separates those //two moments, there is scarce perhaps a single instant, in which any man is so perfectly...

...real source of wealth : that the wish to augment our fortune and to rise in the world — a wish that comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave — is the cause of wealth being saved and accumulated. ' ' — Maccalloch. 1. The doctrine of final...

...is the desire of bettering our condition ; a desire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave." Smith's Wealth of Nation*, book ii. chap iii. pp. 138, 140, edit. Edinb. 1839. M " The uniform, constant,...

...is the desire of bettering our condition ; a di-sire which, though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave." timith's Wealth of Nations, book ii. chap iii. pp. 138, 140, edit. Edinb. 1839. " " The uniform, constant,...

...is the desire of hettering our condition ; a desire whi^h , though generally calm and dispassionate, comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave." Smith's Wealth of Nations, book II, chap. III, p. 138, 140, edit. Edinh. 1839. M) „The uniform, constant,...

...in the English system — ' the wish to ' augment our fortunes, and rise in the world, a wish that comes ' with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the 'grave.' This maxim, expressed alike by Dr. Smith and Mr. M'Culloch, is perfectly applicable to the condition...

...only source of wealth, and that the wish to augment our fortunes and to rise in the world-,a wish that comes with us from the womb, and never leaves us till we go into the grave—is the cause of wealth being saved and accumulated : he has shown that labour is productive...