Carolina Quotes[C]ontempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
Source
p. 56
- work
- Ideas have Consequences (1948)
- year
- 1948
- locator
- p. 56
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