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wann Spain rather than warm India? To the last question: 
Because Spain is nearer to his home. Then why is his home 
near Spain? Because his parents were Germans. And why did 
they go to Germany? And so during the whole meditation. 
On another day let him begin with a question of another 
kind and every day devise new questions, not concerning his 
present situation, but also abstract questions. Thus let him 
connect the prevalence of water upon the surface of the 
globe with its necessity to such life as we know with the 
specific gravity and other physical properties of water, and 
let him perceive ultimately through all this the necessity and 
concord of things, not concord as the schoolmen of old 
believed, making all things for man's benefit or convenience, 
but the essential mechanical concord whose final law is 
inertia. And in these meditations let him avoid as if it were 
the plague any speculations sentimental or fantastic . 
Second 
Method-The 
Practice Proper. Having then 
perfected in his mind these conceptions, let him apply them 
to his own career, forging the links of memory into the chain 
of necessity. 
And let this be his final question: To what purpose am I 
fitted? Of what service can my being prove to the Brothers of 
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if I cross the Abyss and am admitted to the City 
of the Pyramids? 
Now that he may clearly understand the nature of this 
question and the method of solution, let him study the 
reasoning of the anatomist who reconstructed an animal from 
a single bone. To take a simple example: Suppose, having 
lived all my life among savages, a ship is cast upon the shore 
and wrecked. Undamaged among the cargo is a "Victoria." 
What is its use? The wheels speak of roads, their slimness of 
smooth roads, the brake of hilly roads. The shafts show that 
it was meant to be drawn by an animal, their height and 
length suggest an animal of the size of a horse. That the 
carriage is open suggests a climate tolerable at any time of the 
year. The height of the box suggests crowded streets or the