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Stenka25 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
What does "which" stand for?
The passage below is from “The Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith.
In the passage I’m not sure what the underlined “which” exactly stands for.
In a way it seems to represent “propensity,” but in another “human nature” can also be the answer. My mind is tilted slightly toward to the former but I am not 100% sure.
Could you help me with this?
http://www.bartleby.com/10/102.html
This division of labour, from which so many advantages are derived, is not originally the effect of any human wisdom, which foresees and intends that general opulence to which it gives occasion. It is the necessary, though very slow and gradual, consequence of a certain propensity in human nature which has in view no such extensive utility; the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another.
In the passage I’m not sure what the underlined “which” exactly stands for.
In a way it seems to represent “propensity,” but in another “human nature” can also be the answer. My mind is tilted slightly toward to the former but I am not 100% sure.
Could you help me with this?
http://www.bartleby.com/10/102.html
This division of labour, from which so many advantages are derived, is not originally the effect of any human wisdom, which foresees and intends that general opulence to which it gives occasion. It is the necessary, though very slow and gradual, consequence of a certain propensity in human nature which has in view no such extensive utility; the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another.
Top answer
Right, it refers to "propensity".
- Right, it refers to "propensity".
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Stenka25It is the necessary, though very slow and gradual, consequence of a certain propensity in human nature which has in view no such extensive utility; the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another.It's 'propensity'. The autho
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Thanks a lot as always, CJ.
(Excuse me for my very late reply. I think I was out of my senses these days.)
(Excuse me for my very late reply. I think I was out of my senses these days.)
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