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...true, nevertheless, that a man must necessarily renounce many of his possibilities in order to accomplish anything in this highly specialized world. His interests almost unavoidably contract: he cannot leave the main fine of his pursuit to wander off into devious ways, however alluring. But while engrossment in a chosen task does reclude the possibility of comprehensive self-development and activity, it is nevertheless true that if life is to be kept wholesome and happy, the sense of a wide horizon must not be lost. And it is just that sense of the wholeness of life including all the fragmentary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACCALAUREATE SERMON | 6/15/1908 | See Source »

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