{Nineteenth Century Specialisation}[20th December 1990]

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‘Admittedly, the differentiation of the social sciences in the 19^th century* was but one aspect of a larger process that was to be seen as vividly in the physical sciences and the humanities. No major field escaped the lure of specialisation and investigation, and clearly, a great deal of the sheer bulk of learning that passed from the 19^th to the 20^th century was the direct consequence of specialisation.’

– E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 27:36, ‘The Social Sciences’, p369

*2048R~ff

[Ironically, it is this movement to specialisation that has led to the great encyclopaedias, and especially perhaps the Encyclopaedia Britannica itself, no longer being taken seriously, long before the Internet and the World Wide Web made them uneconomic.]

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