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mystics. The reason for that is that the author of the book of the `Brethren of
Purity‟ cited them in his work. He argues from them and gradually enticed
men of weak understanding to accept his falsehoods; he goes on making
claims until heretics remove truth from our hands by depositing it in their
writings.
The lowest degree of education is to distinguish oneself from the ignorant
ordinary man. The educated man does not loathe honey even if he finds it in a
surgeon‟s cupping-glass; he realizes that the cupping-glass does not alter the
honey. The natural aversion rests on popular ignorance, arising from the fact
that the cupping-glass is made for impure blood. Men imagine that the blood
is impure because it is in the cupping-glass and are not aware that impurity is
due to a property of blood itself. Since this property is absent from the honey,
the fact that the honey is in such a container does not change its quality. To
think so is fanciful and false.
Yet this is the prevalent idea among the majority of men. When someone
Purity‟ cited them in his work. He argues from them and gradually enticed
men of weak understanding to accept his falsehoods; he goes on making
claims until heretics remove truth from our hands by depositing it in their
writings.
The lowest degree of education is to distinguish oneself from the ignorant
ordinary man. The educated man does not loathe honey even if he finds it in a
surgeon‟s cupping-glass; he realizes that the cupping-glass does not alter the
honey. The natural aversion rests on popular ignorance, arising from the fact
that the cupping-glass is made for impure blood. Men imagine that the blood
is impure because it is in the cupping-glass and are not aware that impurity is
due to a property of blood itself. Since this property is absent from the honey,
the fact that the honey is in such a container does not change its quality. To
think so is fanciful and false.
Yet this is the prevalent idea among the majority of men. When someone