American Scholar, September 22nd, 2007
While there have always been amateurs--those who have taken time from their usual labors and obligations to pursue a disciplined study of some subject outside their usual sphere--their emergence as a distinct and somewhat curious class is recent. Indeed, William Haley, in his urgent plea for the preservation of their still-crucial role in the arts and sciences, observes that "the word amateur in the sense of 'one who cultivates anything for a pastime, as distinguished from one who prosecutes it professionally,'" only emerged in England in 1803. The rise to dominance of a complex economy and of...
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