In this day of narrow specialties, our thinking needs such men to fuse its parts, correlate its forces, and centre its results; and our thinking needs them in its college stage, in order that we may command horizons from our study windows in after days.
Wilson argues for the necessity of broad thinkers in academia to integrate knowledge across disciplines.
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