Smith, Adam : (1723-90), Scottish economist, known for his An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
... Maude Smith's Correspondence Maude Smith's Correspondence with The Mother 7 October 1957 Mother, A year ago you said you wanted me to be quite free from M, and not let him push me, to do only what I saw was to be done. Now he wants me to type a screen version of Adam and Eve which he is preparing. It seems to me that this play is entirely unsuitable; ...
... Sheffield, but theirs are the names which have made nationhood possible in England, which have supplied work and enterprise with its motive and sustaining force. England is commercially great because Adam Smith gave her the secret of free-trade. England is politically great because her national ideals have been bold and high, not because of her parish work and municipalities. He was no fool or Utopian who ...
... Blake's Tyger Index Abdiel, 56, 73, 74, 76, 77, 86, 104, 105 Abrama, M . H . , 42 fn. 127 Adam, 56, 57, 126, 157 Adam and Eve, 54, 99, 107, 157 Ahania, 1 80 Albion, 153, 188, 195-96, 202, 224, 234, 246, 249, 250, 262 Alchemic and Hermetic thought, iii, viii Alchemical philosophy, 27 America, 163, 202, 203 Ancient Mariner ... Druidism, 83 Duraiswamy, M.S., i, iv fn. 2 Dyne,Sonia,48fn. 17 Earth's Answer, 54,174,232 Eden,157,162 Eliot, T.S., 40,41,42,43,256 Elohim, 220 "Elohim Creating Adam, The", 226 Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, The, 50 fn. 25 Energy, 70,140 English Blake, 53 fn. 1 English Romantic Poets, 42 fn. 27 Enitharmon, 169,208 En... 180-81 Shakespeare, 40 Shelley, 14 "shoulder", 10,119,122 shoulder-art, 10,120 Signatura Rerum, 182 "skies", 12,13,14,16,77,88,92 Smart, Christopher, 42,43,256 Smith, A.J.M., 22,33-35,41 snakes, 5 Sola Pinto, Vivian de, 53 fn. 2 Son and Father, 43 Songs of Experience, The, 57,131,137, 163,206,231 Songs of Innocence, The ,139,206 ...
... based on his observations of nature, did not have a scientific leg to stand on. The reasoning supporting the theory was borrowed, he says, from British sociologists and economists, especially from Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus and Francis Galton. How the species evolved, which was the process of the changes and the mechanism of the mutations within the cell, Darwin simply could not know. “His Origin ...
... for survival, so must be the life of all beings in nature. Darwin applied the doctrine of Malthus to the animal and vegetable kingdoms. He found his conclusions confirmed in “the writings of Adam Smith and other utilitarian economists who presented individual competition as the driving force of economic progress. Perhaps more important, he lived in a [capitalist] society that embraced this view... still based on interpretations of the Bible. In 1620 Archbishop James Ussher, “who had laboured over his studies for decades, even when he became chaplain to the king of England,” had concluded that Adam was created at 9 a.m. on Sunday, 23 October 4004 BC. Time had began on the previous day at 6 p.m. Nowadays one may react to declarations like these with a smile, but “Ussher’s date was recognized by ...
... unable to move my body was all the evidence I needed that the specialists were dealing with real concerns. But deep down, I knew I had a good chance and relished the idea of bucking the odds. Adam Smith, in his book. Powers of the Mind, says he discussed my recovery with some of his doctor friends, asking them to explain why the combination of laughter and ascorbic acid worked so well. The answer... 'with it and that I probably would have recovered if nothing had been done. Maybe so, but that was not the opinion of the specialists at the time. Two or three doctors, reflecting on the Adam Smith account, have commented that I was probably the beneficiary of a mammoth venture in self-administered placebos. Such a hypothesis bothers me not at all. Respectable names in the history of medicine ...
... lamenting learn When who can uncreate thee thou shalt know." 8 We may go beyond the implication of "tears" in "lamenting" and see their direct association with it through some lines on Adam: Adam was all in tears, and to his guide Lamenting turn'd full sad... 9 Tears themselves may also be seen as coming to Blake in a direct association with Satan through a Miltonic reference:... concerned. After Christ has come to the Garden of Eden to pass judgement on Adam and Eve for their 8.Bk. V, 11 .1094-1095. 9.Bk. XI, 11 .674-675. 10. Bk. I, 11 .619-621. Page 56 transgression of God's Will and after he has done what was needed, the erring pair have a talk which ends with Adam's saying in reference to the spot at which Christ has stood: "What better... played in Blake's memory from Milton. Once in Paradise Lost they occur together in the very way to serve as a starting-point for Blake's line. Their togetherness is with reference to Adam and Eve when Raphael tells Adam that the bodies of man and woman may at last turn all to spirit, Improv'd by tract of time, and wing'd ascend Ethereal... 177 But, as the word "ascend" ...
... spontaneously produced one. Sheridan himself generally belonged to the first type while Sydney Smith, whom Walter Savage Landor described as "humour's pink primate", belonged to the second one. Their attitudes towards the quality of which they were both briliant possessors were indeed antipodean. According to Smith, the best wit is born and not trained, and the perfect expression of wit in speech and writing... youngman's reply. "Nor I either," interjected Whately.' (4) A subtly offensive hit: Sydney Smith was a churchman. One day a country squire, having been worsted in an argument by his rector, remarked to Sydney, "If I had a son who was an idiot, I'd make him a parson." Sydney Smith quietly replied, "I see that your father was of a different mind." 6 Before we proceed to the... man or woman? Or shall we say a la Sir Roger de Coverley: 'Much can be said on both sides'? Sri Aurobindo: Dilip, it is six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. To throw it all on woman is Adamism. To ignore the woman's part is feminism. Both are in error. Yes, Sir Roger is right. 79 III. From Amal Kiran's bag: (1)AK: We have various guesses about your previous lives. The other ...
... Blake has spoken of "Los, who is of the Elohim" 286 and mentioned "Elohim, who created Adam". 287 Now, Bateson 288 writes: "Blake's fine colour-print known as 'The Elohim Creating Adam' (1795) depicts the creator as a majestic winged human figure hovering in the air immediately above the newly created Adam." Christ as the Tyger's creator would most appropriately be winged because of his fusion... 11. 84-93). Page 210 also a clear description of Los as a smith, precedent to the division of his "sons" comparable to Albion's "disease" - and a fortiori precedent to his seizing on Urizen's ruined furnaces. Thus Los is a smith primarily and not by furnace-transference from Urizen; also, he is a smith in Eternity, one with anvil and glowing iron when yet the pangs that mark the... becomes the master smith by seizing on Urizen's furnaces but also that Urizen who is the chief Demiurge must have a major hand in the Tyger's making since there is a strong parallel in some of the Hermetica's phrases about the Demiurge to those that leap to us in some of Blake's questions. Secondly, we have to show that in Blake's other writings Los may be figured as a born smith even beyond and before ...
... selection bears an uncanny resemblance to the political economic theory of early capitalism as developed by the Scottish economists,” writes Richard Lewontin, the best known exponent of that school being Adam Smith (1723-90). And he adds: “What Darwin did was take early-nineteenth-century political economy and expand it to include all of natural economy.” 12 Larson sees things in an analogous way:... individualism, imperialism, and laissez-faire capitalism. Of course Malthus was a utilitarian-minded political economist who championed the laissez-faire ideal. Darwin also read the writings of Adam Smith and other utilitarian economists who presented individual competition as the driving force of economic progress. Perhaps more important, he lived in a society that embraced this view; Darwin himself ...
... p. 2 5. Quoted by John Passmore in Hundred Years of Philosophy, p. 79. Page 186 process of natural selection that was quite automatic; and, in particular, "instead of Adam, our ancestry is traced to the most grotesque of creatures." Finally, the problem of free-will has been given a new twist by the Marxist assertion that man is not, after all, such a free agent... he is made to believe that: 1.A character in Jean-Paul Sartre's play, Le Diable et le Bon Dieu. 2.Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion, quoted by G. Grisson and C.H. Gibbs-Smith in Ideas, p. 334. Page 184 "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the kindliness of a heartless world, the soul of souless circumstance. Religion is the opiate of the... is not, after all, his own — a kingdom whose ways are not man's ways and whose thoughts, if it 3. Karl Marx, Introduction to a Critique of Hegel's Philosophy, quoted by Grisson and G. Smith, op. cit.. Page 185 has any thoughts, are not man's thoughts. For man, the world into which he is born without his leave being asked is a world that, for him, is meaningless and ...
... shining spears with which you cut the way to that which is Immortal; knowers of the secret planes, form them, the steps by which the gods attained to immortality. (Rig-Veda X. 53) Since Adam, we seem to have chosen to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, but on this path there are no half-measures or regrets, for if we remain prostrate in a false humility, our noses in the dust, the... that is to say, we rise higher and higher in our consciousness and grow in divinity and vastness. Indeed the gods are said to "be born" in us and the Human Forefathers to be fashioning the gods as a smith forges the crude material in his smithy 14 — and that by growing in us, they increase the earth and heaven 15 (that is, the capacities of our physical and mental existence). "Let the gods be in ...
... the nature of man. In the West there is the liberal conception of man competing with the Marxist conception. The liberal conception of man was developed by such classical writers as Locke, Adam Smith, Bentham, and John Stuart Mill and is enshrined in the liberal democracies of the West and is incorporated in the thinking of influential philosophers like Karl Popper. The defenders of Western ...
... Page 13 them. But one must underline the vast gap between the hopes and the realization - the dreams, one might say, and the reality. The economists of the last century (Adam Smith, Riccardo, Malthus, Marx) were all very pessimistic about the improvement of social conditions. For them there was no betterment in prospect. The situation at the end of the century seemed to confirm ...
... 13.Palindrome: A palindrome is an ingenious succession of words such that, read from left to right or from right to left, the sound and the sense remain the same. Example 1: "Madam, I'm Adam." Example 2: A man, a plan, a canal - Panama! Example 3: Here is a palindrome of seven words supposed to have been uttered by Napoleon. He was, as we know, first exiled to the isle of... Let us not bother about the mistaken notion of the generality of common men. For, all connoisseurs of higher scholarship recognise that "learning should be bright and luminous, as cheerful as Sydney Smith, as optimistic as Leonardo da Vinci: gloom, like that of Carlyle, mostly means indigestion!" 4 Be it that laughter is decried by the self-styled serious Page 21 people, but even... us to say with delicacy things which would never do if said outright. ... Pun is a form of polite satire where direct attack would be uncivil and displeasing." 54 Example: The Rev. Sydney Smith said to his fellow-canons of St. Paul's Cathedral who were animatedly discussing the question of a wooden side-walk round the edifice: "Come, gentlemen, lay your heads together and the thing is ...
... — 1444), and Pico della Mirandola (De Dignitate Hominis, — On the Dignity of Man— 1486). The final dominance of this utilitarian image of man oriented around worldly success can be found in Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776. The secular nation-states of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in France, England and Spain replaced Papal ...
... jungle" or "one who hails from a jungle". My name "Sethna" stands for "one who belongs to, or else is associated with, a family of masters". My imagination likes to trace my line to the third son of Adam - "Seth" - with a Gujarati suffix - "na" -added! I wonder what the etymology of "Raine" is. Does the word derive from the French "reine" or is it an Old-English form of "rain"? Page 279 ... 'humanized' only in Jesus, and is not the Tyger one of the 'dehumanized' denizens of the Forests? But you may well be right, that fire is Urizen's enemy, and Los, who 'kept the divine vision' is the Smith who dared 'seize the fire' - the agent of Jesus the Imagination. I am bound to admit that I did not give enough Page 269 place to Paradise Lost as a source - laziness, lack of thoroughness ...
... and uninterrupted sequences many occurrences which actually stand fairly apart. Smith, 1 following Arrian (V.8), Diodorus (XVII.87) and Curtius (VII.12, 13), 2 speaks of Alexander's "stay in his comfortable quarters at Taxila for a sufficient time to rest his army". Then the march to the Hydaspes (Jhelum) took, by Smith's calculation, 3 probably a fortnight. On the western bank of the Hydaspes there... watching and foraging, while Porus deployed his army on the eastern bank. Smith 4 supposes 6 or 7 weeks of preliminaries and preparations such as described by Arrian (V.9.10): 5 at least a month may be supposed. Aristobulus slurs over all these things. He slurs similarly over intervals prior to the Indus-crossing. Smith, 6 quoting Curtius (VIII. 12), 7 writes that, having left the mountainous... more like Vaivasvata than Svāyambhuva, for, though both are royal genealogy-starters in their own ways, the latter is such simply by being the first Indian - and Dionysus, even as "Indos", was not the Adam of India. But in all his other 1. The Vedic Age, pp. 270-71. 2. Ibid., pp. 271-72. Page 82 capacities Dionysus is not at all like either Vaivasvata or Svāyambhuva ...
... merely as disturbing factors. If the reasons alleged were sufficient to be a just ground for failure, all Yoga would be impossible for you or anybody. The persistence or the obstinate return of the old Adam is a common experience: it is only when there is a sufficient mass of experience and a certain progression of consciousness in the higher parts of the being that the lower can be really transmuted.... well as a master of the ode and the lyric—that sums up his work. But you must avoid a common popular blunder about reincarnation. The popular idea is that Titus Balbus is reborn again as John Smith, a man with the same personality, character, attainments as he had in his former life with the sole ___________________ 1. Latin poet and philosopher (c. 94-55 BC). 2. Yes, he wrote a ...
... encompassing realization – the world becomes our own being – but we lose the sense of individuality; indeed, it would be a mistake to think of a Mr. Smith sitting in the middle of his cosmic consciousness and enjoying the view – for there is no more Mr. Smith. Discovering the Transcendent is a very lofty realization, but we lose both the individual and the world – there is nothing left but That, forever... say that every human being should do the same and awaken from his state of error – all right, but again why the earth if it is merely to awaken from the error of the earth? We speak of "the fall," of Adam and Eve, of some absurd original sin which ruined what God had made perfect in the beginning – yet everything is God! The serpent of paradise, if every there were one, was God, and so were Satan and... integral development through time. Actually, it is not the small frontal personality that reincarnates, even if this comes as a disappointment to those who picture themselves as eternally the same Mr. Smith, in a Saxon tunic, then in velvet breeches, and finally in synthetic jogging pants, not to mention how boring this would be. The meaning of reincarnation is both deeper and vaster. At the time of death ...
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