Plutology Or the Theory of the Efforts to Satisfy Human Wants
Plutology Or the Theory of the Efforts to Satisfy Human Wants
William Edward Hearn
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It is true that in complex subjects changes can be safely effected only by those who are acquainted with all the details of the subject and their mutual relations ; but the mere familiarity with the routine of a process which frequently constitutes the sum of the practitioner's attainments, is very different from an accurate knowledge of its principles. Accordingly persons whose usual occupations are wholly dissimilar often obtain a theo- retical acquaintance with the processes of other busines...ses sufficient to enable them, if not to practice the art, at least thoroughly to comprehend its details. Such persons too are * Smiles's Lives of the Engineers, vol. I. P. 207. 280 THE RECIPROCAL INFLUENCE OF less subject to disturbing influences than practitioners. They are less embarrassed by the traditions of the art. They are not restrained by the natural reluctance to confess in their declining years that the operations in which they prided themselves and all the hardly won skill of their youthful days are at best worthless.
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