Arranging Knowledge - Excellent Quote by Adam Smith

Below is an insight of deep meaning from Adam Smith.

Though some of my colleagues at MIT might disagree, I think the activity of arranging and organizing to be extremely important. I will continue to pursue these activities.

"It seems to be the peculiar talent of the French nation, to arrange every subject in that natural and simple order, which carries the attention, without any effort, along with it. The English seem to have employed themselves entirely in inventing, and to have disdained the more inglorious but not less useful labour of arranging and methodizing their discoveries, and of expressing them in the most simple and natural manner."

Adam Smith

Edinburgh Review of 1775-6

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Phillipson, Nicholas, 2010. Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life. 1st Ed. Yale University Press.