I [prefer] A Short Life With Width

Now It Is Established In The Sciences That No Knowledge Is Acquired Save Through The Study Of Its Causes And Beginnings, If It Has Had Causes And Beginnings; Nor Completed Except By Knowledge Of Its Accidents And Accompanying Essentials.

Prayer Is That Which Enables The Soul To Realize Its Divinity. Through Prayer Human Beings Worship Absolute Truth, And Seek An Eternal Reward. Prayer Is The Foundation-stone Of Religion; And Religion Is The Means By Which The Soul Is Purified Of All That Pollutes It. Prayer Is The Worship Of The First Cause Of All Things, The Supreme Ruler Of All The World, The Source Of All Strength. Prayer Is The Adoration Of The One Whose Being Is Necessary.

Pure Earth Does Not Petrify, Because The Predominance Of Dryness Over [i.e. In] The Earth Endows It Not With Coherence But Rather With Crumbliness. In General, Stone Is Formed In Two Ways Only (a) Through The Hardening Of Clay, And (b) By The Congelation [of Waters].

As To The Mental Essence, We Find It In Infants Devoid Of Every Mental Form.

I [prefer] A Short Life With Width To A Narrow One With Length.