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the same specialist stress involved much reliance on slave
labor, there was spectacular increase of production. But the
armies of technologically specialized slaves working the land
blighted the social existence of the independent yeomen and
small farmers, and led to the strange world of the Roman
towns and cities crowded with rootless parasites.
To a much greater degree than Roman slavery, the
specialism of mechanized industry and market organization has
faced Western man with the challenge of manufacture by
monofracture, or the tackling of all things and operations one-
bit-at-a-time. This is the challenge that has permeated all
aspects of our lives and enabled us to expand so triumphantly
in all directions and in all spheres.