In an age ofspecialism he endeavoured to be universal.
In an age of narrow specialism he has "stood up for the fact that philosophy is not the concern of those who pass through Divinity and Greats, but of those who pass through birth and death.
But at least I am called upon to do a great many different sorts of things; and am not tied down to that trivial specialism of the proletarian press.
But specialism means subdivision of labor; and with subdivision labor ought to be more completely, more exactly, performed.
But as little learning is only dangerous when it forgets that it is little, sospecialism is only dangerous when it forgets that it is special.
The specialism of the criminal, I repeat, is a mark rather of insanity than of any brightness of business habits; but there is one kind of depredator to whom this principle is at first sight hard to apply.
Specialism has always been decried by a large section of the medical profession.
Religion has become largely a matter of cliques, coteries, associations--of specialism in codes and casuistry.
Possibly the advantages of specialism might be retained and yet the elasticity of supply be enhanced.
The specialism of the two main branches of the industry has been followed by the specialism of sub-branches and by the localization of specialized parts.
Even if the Americans did possess a convenient commercial centre, the high cost of transport between works distributed over a very wide area would prevent much specialism of businesses by processes from appearing.
The general conditions under which commercial specialism evolves may be taken to be a moderately limited range of products which do not present many varieties, and the qualities of which can be judged generally on inspection.
Differences in respect of specialism by range of product are not shown in the formulae.
But for other reasons specialized processes might be looked for where qualities were highest, as by specialism alone can the greatest excellence be attained.
The explanation of differences in respect of the degree of commercial specialism in different places and industries can be formulated only very generally.
If Haiti started a cotton factory she might import all her specialized machinery--the specialism involved in producing which is dependent upon the exportation of some of it--and restrict narrowly the work undertaken by her one factory.
In no other trade in England, and in no other cotton industry abroad, has commercial specialism been carried so far as in the cotton trade of Lancashire.
The advantages of commercial specialism are numerous.
Out of the crowding of the mills in one locality sprang the business specialism which has continued up to the present day.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about this early history of medicine in Egypt is that, with the very earliest dawn of medical history, we have traces of highly developed specialism in medicine.
We are very prone to think that specialism is a development of modern medicine.
Ascending a step or two higher, we come to the men who repudiate specialism as narrowing and troublesome, and who impose on themselves no restraint save perchance in the direction of theology, science, and arcana.
This narrow empirical conception spread very widely during the nineteenth century, particularly in the second half, among the rapidly advancing sciences; it was favored by the specialism which grew up in the necessary division of labor.
Intuition is one of the faculties of the Inner Man, of which Specialism is an attribute.
XVI Specialism consists in seeing the things of the material universe and the things of the spiritual universe in all their ramifications original and causative.
XVIII Specialism is necessarily the most perfect expression of man, and he is the link binding the visible world to the higher worlds; he acts, sees, and feels by his inner powers.
Instinct demands deed; Abstraction is concerned with Ideas; Specialismsees the end, it aspires to God with presentiment or contemplation.
Specialism opens to man his true career; the Infinite dawns on him; he sees what his destiny must be.
Objectivism and specialism have both shown science to be standing in its own light, or at least to be standing in the way of any direct and positive knowledge of reality.
Thus, as has been shown, specialism in science is itself a paradox, and, as now asserted, every special science assuming precise form and real validity becomes a home of paradoxical or contradictory doctrines.
For other evidence against the integrity and adequacy of specialism, showing how mind defies specialism and conserves its indivisible universe, there are the following simple but certainly interesting facts.
Now both objectivism and specialism plainly involve aloofness, which is perhaps only another word for what in the preceding chapter was called abstraction.
Grown men and women may be more definitely set in their lives and their ideas to certain specific things than children, but in no one, young or old, can such specialism ever be wholly exclusive of any of the other things.
Illustration, accordingly, appears, after all, to be needed only for the specialismthat separates the physical and the psychical sciences.
But the most important fact in illustration of our case against specialism is yet to be considered, and unfortunately it takes us where to some the waters may seem dangerously deep.
In ways and for reasons neither unknown nor unappreciated by most men, specialism even closes one's eyes and makes one dream.
Not so clear, however, or at least not so commonly appreciated, is the peculiar fallacy and contradiction of specialism to which attention is asked here.
The natural decline of an asserted specialism, then, or the development of specialism into a mere form without substance, into a virtual universalism, makes science applicable.
To begin with, specialism makes vision, the mind's vision as well as the sensuous vision, dim or distorted.
And now in what has been said of the specialism of science, the same turning of the edge of attack is all but manifest.
But if the specialist is to the amateur what the hawk is to the dove, let us go further, and in a spirit of love, like Mr. Chadband, inquire what is the effect of specialism on the mind of the specialist.
Now the peculiar peril of our time, which I call for argument's sake Imperialism or Caesarism, is the complete eclipse of comradeship and equality byspecialism and domination.
We are conscious of the towering modern challenge that is called specialism or cut-throat competition--Business.
Nevertheless, we will not say that this separation andspecialism is entirely useless or inexcusable.
But I do not think the most austere upholder of specialism will deny that there is in these old, many-sided institutions an element of unity and universality which may well be preserved in its due proportion and place.
It has decided, rightly or wrongly, that this specialism and this universalism shall be divided between the sexes.
There is modern commerce and its clerks; there is the modern family with its unmarried daughters; specialism is expected everywhere; female thrift and conscientiousness are demanded and supplied.
Similarly, the judgments of our own age of specialism may be reversed by posterity; and in any event it would be regrettable if a once important historical work should be quite forgotten.
Not only does militaryspecialism preclude, so far as it goes, more intellectual forms of activity: it develops in the highest degree the conservative spirit[342] when thoroughly rooted in law and custom.
Specialism is an inward sight that can penetrate all things; you will understand its full meaning only through comparison.
Specialism opens to man his true career; the Infinite dawns upon him--he catches a glimpse of his destiny.
Specialism constitutes a sort of inward vision which penetrates all things, and you can understand its processes only by a comparison.
