y ocho mil alfileres en un día. Cada persona, por consiguiente, al fabricar la décima parte de cuarenta y ocho mil alfileres, podía ser considerada como si hiciera cuatro mil ochocientos alfileres en un
Pero si todos ellos hubiesen trabajado por separado e independientemente, y sin que ninguno de ellos se hubiera educado en este oficio peculiar, ciertamente cada uno de ellos no habría podido hacer veinte, tal vez ni un solo alfiler en un día; es decir, ciertamente, ni la doscientas cuarentaava, tal vez ni la cuatro mil ochocientosava parte de lo que hoy son capaces de realizar como consecuencia de una adecuada división y combinación de sus diferentes operaciones.
In every other art and manufacture, the effects of the division of labour are similar to what they are in this very trifling one; though, in many of them, the labour can neither be so much subdivided, nor reduced to so great a simplicity of operation. The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labour. The separation of different trades and employments from one another, seems to have taken place, in consequence of this advantage. This separation too is generally carried furthest in those countries which enjoy the highest degree of industry and improvement; what is the work of one man in a rude state of society, being generally that of several in an improved one. * In every improved society, the farmer is generally nothing but a farmer; the manufacturer, nothing but a manufacturer. * The labour too which is necessary to produce any one complete manufacture, is almost always divided among a great number