Richard Weaver - Ideas Have Consequences (1948)

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… contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

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The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. … He was bred up to a code of self-restraint which taught resistance to pragmatic temptation. He was definitely a man of sentiment, who refused to put matters on a basis of materialism and self-aggrandizement.

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