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knowledge and in the end be content with such feeble and emaciated
knowledge, while imagining that they have attained the utmost aims of the
sciences! These claimants to knowledge we also have examined, probing
into both external and internal features of their views. All they amounted to
was a deception of the ordinary man and the weak intellect by proving the
need for an „instructor‟. Their further arguments to show that there is no
need for instruction by theological reasoning are strong and unanswerable
until one tries to help them to prove the need for an „instructor‟ by saying,
`Give us some examples of his knowledge and of his "instruction".‟ Then
the exponent is at a loss. `Now that you have submitted this difficulty to me‟,
he says, `I shall search for a solution; my present object, however, is limited
to what I have already said‟. He knows that, if he were to attempt to
proceed further, his shameful condition would be revealed and he would be
unable to resolve the least of the problems -that he would be unable even
to understand them, far less to answer them.
This is the real condition in which they are. As it is said, `Try them and
you will hate them‟!-after we had tried them we left them also severely
knowledge, while imagining that they have attained the utmost aims of the
sciences! These claimants to knowledge we also have examined, probing
into both external and internal features of their views. All they amounted to
was a deception of the ordinary man and the weak intellect by proving the
need for an „instructor‟. Their further arguments to show that there is no
need for instruction by theological reasoning are strong and unanswerable
until one tries to help them to prove the need for an „instructor‟ by saying,
`Give us some examples of his knowledge and of his "instruction".‟ Then
the exponent is at a loss. `Now that you have submitted this difficulty to me‟,
he says, `I shall search for a solution; my present object, however, is limited
to what I have already said‟. He knows that, if he were to attempt to
proceed further, his shameful condition would be revealed and he would be
unable to resolve the least of the problems -that he would be unable even
to understand them, far less to answer them.
This is the real condition in which they are. As it is said, `Try them and
you will hate them‟!-after we had tried them we left them also severely