Such specialization and depersonalization of enquiry led inevitably to a taste for mere erudition and a temptation to eclecticism. (Arnold Hauser)

Such specialization and depersonalization of enquiry led inevitably to a taste for mere erudition and a temptation to eclecticism.

Arnold Hauser

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