The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-30
Is Specialization a Menace ?

The universal tendency towards specialization, though
admittedly productive Of the best economical results Great
ing alarm among thinkers it's ultimate influence hui
man character The chief characteristic of modern industrial
professional life is the minute division of labor and special
zaton of effort but it begins to be that this bring
about evils to offset its advantages vt that de-
voton particular pursuit tends to make machine Of
1t is we'll known scientific principle that dsused
CANS faculties disappear entirely lapse atropied
rudinents. Thus the fishes in the waters of the Mammoth
Cave eyes, because living constantly in che dark they
for them Horses had five toes may be
proved yet by dssecng the oo but the muscles that worked
these found ruhents having died
gradually the toes amalgamaed into organ Man him
self bears his person abundant evidence of lost
which former ages utilized FOR various purposes In
of this the documentary mammals still borne the
breast but serving useful purposes Lgaents around
the qescen indicate that at time progena
able to erect these organs flap them and them
back and forth like horse There also grounded s,spc
that he had tail or considerable length gradually
she'd however, when longer needed for prehensle purposes
in holding limbs of trees in the act of climbing How
all this may be- it is certain that any organ
whose discontinued will gradually become limp and
feeble.
Dean Swift, his old story of Captain Guivers visit
the island Of Lggnagg sets forth uorousy what happens
devoted too exclusively to specialization Luggnagg
kind of paradise for cranks where spent
his whole life working out particular dea and the results
apparent universal deformit The whole popula
indeed grand aggregation of freaks each having
become special subject The who
had labored Tor plan tor looking both
had gradually developed aggravated of
Of his looking permanently upward and the
other fixed rrevocably in downward direction genius
who worked develop between head and shoulders
gradually into tpye of the rubberneck that seemed
to forecast the giraffe So went with the modern hairy
skeleton different types corresponding man. pgmes
and other of the side show Now Profess
Young expressing fears that owing to the tendency to
artificial means Of progression we threatened with leg
less humanity As the universally of the bicycle the troly
automobile and steam locomotive brings about steady decline
the legs may this time the loss of these
members Even the farmers not if they indulge
too much in the luxury Of riding With trolley buzzn
his DOORS and all sorts of vehicles at hand he finds
and less need for walking He sits suky plow rides his
harrow reaper and will have his motor wagon
Farmers have found how breed the horns off cattle
make the pigs shed his brses and how produce ROSTERS
that look exactly like hens Let them take by over
indulgence along line may turn up centuries
later minus of the organs deemed both and
ornamental legess is doubtless still far Off but
pleasant contemplate for the year 5402 lot
sawed off walking arouud stumps like those crppes
sometimes begging in the streets of Cities.