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THE FIRST HEBREW ALGEBRA` Take care to register the fact that you have done so, and to arrange your mind, from the first, on the understanding that the eliminated data will have to come back. Forget them during the working out of your experimental equation; but never give way to the feeling that they are got rid of and done with.

Be very careful not to disturb other people's relationships to each other. For instance, if a teacher is explaining something to another pupil, never speak till she has done. Beware of the sentimental craving to be "in it." Any studying-group profits by right working relations being set up between any two members; and ultimately each member profits. The whole group suffers from any distraction between any two. Therefore listen and learn what you can; but never disturb or distract.

Take care not to become a parasite; do not lazily appropriate the results of other people's labour, but learn and labour truly to get your 33