Word: chip
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Dates: during 1889-1889
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...limiting it so as not to encroach on another. He then chooses his topic, and works to exhaust it. When his topic has become exhausted, the knowledge of experience becomes essential; he can tell from the scale of fish everything science tells us about the fish; from a chip he can recognize a Greek statue; from a bone he can draw the skeleton. In fine, his object is to make the part reflect the whole. To this tendency of the German towards specialization is due the rise of comparative history, comparative art, religion, philology, jurisprudence, etc. In philosophy also...