The writer observes that survival is a difficult endeavor and that the world can sometimes seem harshly hostile.

作者发现，人类需要通过努力而生存,但这个世界往往是非常残酷的。

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But rather reason, he says, is attained by industry,by work, and it is developed first, he says, by the imposing of names on things, the correct names on things, and second by getting a good and orderly method of study.

他说，理性是通过辛勤的努力得来的，理性的形成，是通过使用事物的名称，事物正确的名称形成的，第二，是通过获得一种良好,而有有条不紊的学习方法形成的。

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