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For a few it is the best, indeed, the only natural, line of development; but these are few and easily recognised, and even they should not be allowed to specialise too narrowly that is a point which no one who is not a mathematician will dispute.
In the preliminary stages of literary culture, nothing is more helpful, in the way of kindling an interest and keeping it well alight, than to specialise for a time on one author, and particularly on an author so frankly and curiously "human" as Lamb is. I do not mean that you should imprison yourself with Lamb's complete works for three months, and read nothing else.
It is precisely because this picturing of the other man's point of view is in the main a thing in which Christians and Europeans specialise that Christians and Europeans, with all their faults, have carried to such perfection both the arts of peace and war. Both involve a vivid calculation of remote events.
Presently he would want to get to the center of things. He might ultimately specialise. If he did he rather thought it would be gynæcology. He was interested in women's cases. Or it might be nervous diseases. He wasn't sure. Anyhow, it must be something big. For under Gwenda Cartaret's eyes his romantic youth became fiery and turbulent inside him.
Would you rather we didn't talk about it? Perhaps you're tired of having it talked about?" "No; my poor soul has never done anything to get itself talked about." "I only thought that as your father, perhaps, specialises in souls " "He doesn't specialise in mine. He knows nothing about it." "The specialist never does.
Hugo Peterby asked the question with a certain amount of personal interest. "I don't specialise in it," said Clovis; "it's all right while you're doing it, but the after-effects are sometimes so disconcerting the mute reproachful looks of the people you've aided and abetted in matrimonial experiments.
This can be seen even in the simple matter of language, especially in the sense of slang. Take, for instance, the delightful sketch in the causerie of Oliver Wendell Holmes; the character of the young man called John. He is the very modern type in every modern country who does specialise in slang.
In this way one learns to visualise the salient features of any period and gradually to acquire a feeling for them, that subtle sense which is not dependent wholly upon outline, decoration, nor colour, but upon the combined result. French writers who specialise along the lines of interior decoration often refer to the three types as follows: Period of Louis XIV heavily, stolidly masculine;
"I suppose not," returned Challis thoughtfully; "but when you take up psychology, Lewes, I should much like you to specialise on a careful inquiry into association in connection with memory.
I believe that the general American tendency is to insist less than we do on sheer mental discipline for its own sake, whether in classics or mathematics, to allow the student a wider latitude of choice, and to enable him to specialise at an earlier point in his curriculum upon the studies he most affects, or which are most likely to be directly useful to him in practical life.
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