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directions. For the study of language and 

 literature (which corresponds with history in 

 its most general sense) a similar procedure is 

 the only right one. Everything in science is 

 related; although science itself is endless, yet 

 the whole system is pervaded with sympathies 

 and correspondences. Let the student place 

 himself where he will so long as he selects 

 something significant and worth while, and 

 he will be compelled to broaden out from this 

 point of departure in every direction in order 

 to reach a complete understanding of his 

 subject. From each and every detail one is 

 driven to consider the whole; the only thing 

 that matters is that one go to work in the 

 right way, with strength, intelligence, and 

 avidity. Let one choose several different points 

 of departure, working through from each of 

 them to the whole, and one will grasp the 

 whole all the more surely, and comprehend the 

 wealth of detail all the more fully. Accordingly, 

 by sinking deep into the particular, one most 

 easily avoids the danger of becoming narrow. 



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