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kind of praiseworthy knowledge to escape him without carefully examining it in
order to become familiar with its aims and purposes, and should time permit, he
should take it up in detail; otherwise he should address himself to and master the
most important, while acquainting himself with the rest, because the different
branches of knowledge are both supplementary to one another and closely
interrelated.
The sixth duty is that the student should not address himself at the same time to
every branch of knowledge, but should rather observe some kind of order and
begin with the most important, especially since life is ordinarily too short to
enable a person to pursue all branches of knowledge. It is therefore wise to
acquire the best of everything, satisfying oneself, so to speak, with the mere
tasting of it while directing whatever power one has left, after having obtained all
available knowledge, towards mastering that noblest of all sciences, the science
of the Hereafter.
The seventh duty is that no one should address himself to one branch of
knowledge before he has already mastered the branch, which precedes it
because science is of necessity so arranged that one branch prepares for
order to become familiar with its aims and purposes, and should time permit, he
should take it up in detail; otherwise he should address himself to and master the
most important, while acquainting himself with the rest, because the different
branches of knowledge are both supplementary to one another and closely
interrelated.
The sixth duty is that the student should not address himself at the same time to
every branch of knowledge, but should rather observe some kind of order and
begin with the most important, especially since life is ordinarily too short to
enable a person to pursue all branches of knowledge. It is therefore wise to
acquire the best of everything, satisfying oneself, so to speak, with the mere
tasting of it while directing whatever power one has left, after having obtained all
available knowledge, towards mastering that noblest of all sciences, the science
of the Hereafter.
The seventh duty is that no one should address himself to one branch of
knowledge before he has already mastered the branch, which precedes it
because science is of necessity so arranged that one branch prepares for