Smith's prompts for specialization

          It appears to me as though Smith is actually advocating specialization throughout his piece, but to specify two places I will begin with the most obvious.  On the later half of page 71 and the earlier half of page 72, Smith uses the concept of a primitive tribe of men.  He discusses that "... a particular person makes bows and arrows, for example, with more readiness and dexterity than any other.  He frequently exchanges them for cattle or for venison with his companions, and he finds at last that he can in this manner get more cattle and venison than if he himself went to the field to catch them."  This is simply stating that men can use their talents in specialized work to benefit themselves more greatly through purchase and barter than if they did other work (in which they have less talent), or tried to do all the work required to sustain them.  Furthermore, this man who exchanges his bows is not only helping himself, but also the hunters, therefore, by specializing, he is benefiting a much greater number than if he tried to sustain himself without help.  Smith then goes on and expands his example to other professions in his primitive community, such as hide tanner or carpenter, thereby saying  that a man can do much more good through specialization.
          A second example comes at the end of the work, on page 73, where smith is discussing that animals of separate "tribes" do not benefit each other.  Smith states, "Among men, on the contrary, the most dissimilar geniuses are of use to one another; the different produces of their respective talents, by the general disposition to truck, barter, and exchange, being brought, as it were, into a common stock, where every man may purchase whatever part of the produce of other men's talents he has occasion for."  Smith says here that if men specialize in their labor and do what they have talent in, it can all be brought together to a place where it can be purchased by anyone, and all can benefit from it.