Our pedantry wants even the saving clause of Enthusiasm.

The election is now matter of necessity and not of choice.

Knowledge is now too broad a field for your Jack-of-all-Trades; and, from beautifully utilitarian reasons, he makes his choice, draws his pen through a dozen branches of study, and behold--John the Specialist.
That this is the way to be wealthy we shall not deny; but we hold that it is _not_ the way to be healthy or wise.

The whole mind becomes narrowed and circumscribed to one 'punctual spot' of knowledge.

A rank unhealthy soil breeds a harvest of prejudices.