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and extracting from it the pure gold and throwing away the counterfeit coins
would not withhold the good and acceptable money from one in need; even
so does the scholar act.

Again, when a man is bitten by a snake and needs the antidote, he turns
from it because he learns that it is extracted from the snake, the source of
the poison, and he requires to be shown the value of the antidote despite its
source. Likewise, a poor man in need of money, who shrinks from receiving
the gold taken out of the bag of the counterfeiter, ought to have it brought to
his notice that his shrinking is pure ignorance and is the cause of his
missing the benefit he seeks; he ought to be informed that the closeness of
the counterfeit to the good coin does not make the good coin counterfeit or
the counterfeit good. In the same way the proximity between truth and
falsehood does not make truth falsehood nor falsehood truth.

This is what we wanted to say about the baneful and mischievous
influence of philosophy.

3. The Danger of `Authoritative Instruction’.