Bacon
Specialization
It could be said that one entire book of Barfield's, Worlds Apart: A Dialogue of the Sixties, is about specialization, for this Socratic dialogue was inspired by a confessed concern over the inability of the "worlds apart" specialists in all the current disciplines of intellectual inquiry to talk to one another.

"What struck me so forcibly, and not for the first time," Burgeon explains, relating how he had been moved to arrange the colloquy imaginatively recorded in Worlds Apart,

was that a new book on any subject--history, philosophy, science, religion, or what have you--is always dealt with by a specialist in that subject. This may be fairest from the author's point of view, but it conveys a disagreeable impression of watertight compartments.

    . . . It wasn't that people can think at once and confidently and oppositely about almost everything that matters--though that too, can sometimes be a sobering reflection. It wasn't that they disagreed. I wished they did. What was biting me was the fact that these minds never met at all. . . . (9-10)
In that book Barfield has Brodie, a physical scientist, lament: "I'm just thinking of what's been going on among the physicists. The old Lord Chief Justice [Bacon] defined a specialist as 'a man who knows more and more about less and less.' But some among us are beginning to wonder if he isn't a man who knows less and less about less and less!" (17).
 
See in particular Worlds Apart, passim.