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Specialization (n.) multiplies ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠“ends in themselves” until each field loses touch with the others and with life, drying out everyone who has risen — or sunk — to the specialist's level.

Specialization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what happens when the community makes the function the measure of a man: it honours memory in one, a tabulating intellect in another, and lets every other aptitude wither.

Specialization (n.) leads ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the individual into error, but the species to truth.

Specialization (n.) makes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠us 'no longer individuals but species' when we identify with a single function — collective beings of universal validity, estranged from ourselves, while the other three quarters of the psyche languish in the dark.

Specialization (n.) chosen ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠on purpose marks the highest culture; specialization one cannot help is barbarism, with something berserk about it.

Specialization (n.) willed ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠on purpose reshapes the personality like a dominant complex — and is one of the main sources of the unwanted complexes that follow.

Specialization (n.) makes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠tools of people: if science is an end in itself man is mere intellect, if art then mere imagination, and if making money, science and art can quietly shut up shop.

Specialization (n.) breeds ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the ignorance behind exaggerated scepticism, screening off its narrow horizon from every wider view — though ESP results reach odds of one in 10^35, the molecules in 250,000 tons of water.

Specialization (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the useful result of a function breaking free and building a world of its own — and also a disagreeable one-sidedness that subjugates the other functions.