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It Is Also A Natural Thing For A Serious Young Man That He Should Form For Himself As Precise An Idea As Possible Of The Goal Of His Desires.

All Our Thoughts And Concepts Are Called Up By Sense-experiences And Have A Meaning Only In Reference To These Sense-experiences. On The Other Hand, However, They Are Products Of The Spontaneous Activity Of Our Minds; They Are Thus In No Wise Logical Consequences Of The Contents Of These Sense-experiences. If, Therefore, We Wish To Grasp The Essence Of A Complex Of Abstract Notions We Must For The One Part Investigate The Mutual Relationships Between The Concepts And The Assertions Made About Them; For The Other, We Must Investigate How They Are Related To The Experiences.

We Have Penetrated Far Less Deeply Into The Regularities Obtaining Within The Realm Of Living Things, But Deeply Enough Nevertheless To Sense At Least The Rule Of Fixed Necessity... What Is Still Lacking Here Is A Grasp Of The Connections Of Profound Generality, But Not A Knowledge Of Order Itself.

The Effort To Strive For Truth Has To Precede All Other Efforts.

Culture In Its Higher Forms Is A Delicate Plant Which Depends On A Complicated Set Of Conditions And Is Wont To Flourish Only In A Few Places At Any Given Time.