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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
ascribes a statement to an author they approve of, they accept it even
though it is false; whenever someone ascribes it to an author they
disapprove of, they reject it even though it is true. They always make the
man the criterion of truth and not truth the criterion of the man; and that is
erroneous in the extreme.
This shows the incorrect tendency to simply reject the ethics of
philosophers.
(b) There is also an incorrect tendency in accepting them. When a man
looks into their books, such as the `Brethren of Purity‟ and others, and sees
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
ascribes a statement to an author they approve of, they accept it even
though it is false; whenever someone ascribes it to an author they
disapprove of, they reject it even though it is true. They always make the
man the criterion of truth and not truth the criterion of the man; and that is
erroneous in the extreme.
This shows the incorrect tendency to simply reject the ethics of
philosophers.
(b) There is also an incorrect tendency in accepting them. When a man
looks into their books, such as the `Brethren of Purity‟ and others, and sees