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Old Adam (human)

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Phraseologism: Old Adam (man).

Meaning: Spiritually renew, get rid of old habits, attitudes ..

Origin: The expression goes back to the Epistles of the Apostle Paul to the Romans (6, 6), Ephesians (4, 22), Colossians (3, 9), where it means: a sinful person who must be morally reborn, hence "put off the old man, Adam" .

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The principle of "Laissez faire, laissez passer".

Meaning:

Phrase-symbol of extreme, orthodox economic liberalism.

Origin:

In Russian transliteration: "lesse fair, lesse passe". From French: allow, do not interfere, "let everything go as it goes." The words of the French economist and farmer Vincennes de Gournay (1712-1759) from a speech he delivered (1758) at a meeting of physiocratic economists (supporters of free trade). In it, he argued that for the prosperity of crafts and trade, the government should not interfere in the sphere of entrepreneurship. This idea became the main tenet of the "Manchester" school of liberal political economy. Bearing in mind the Russian administrative and economic experience, the satirist writer M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889) in his fairy tale "for children of a fair age" - "The Bear in the Voivodeship" (1884) gave. ironic interpretation of this principle: "... The donkey said: - What kind of atrocities are you interrogating about? The main thing in our craft is: laissez passer, laissez faire! "Here you are. If you, my friend, begin to adhere to this rule, then villainy will become of itself, and everything will be fine with you!"

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