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The Promise Of American Life

CHAPTER V
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Like all experts, they had to depend, not upon mere energy, untutored enthusiasm, and good-will, but upon careful training and single-minded devotion to a special task, and at the same time proper provision had to be made for cooerdinating the results of this highly specialized work.

More complete organization necessarily accompanied specialization.

The expert became a part of a great industrial machine.
His individuality tended to disappear in his work.

His interests became those of a group.

Imperative economic necessities began to classify the individuals composing American society in the same way, if not to the same extent, that they had been classified in Europe.
This was a result which had never entered into the calculations of the pioneer Democrat.


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