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showed the weakness and corruption of his thought. Yet he is the person followed in
the Book of the
Brethren of Purity, which is really but the dregs of philosophy.
It is truly amazing that men should toil all their life long searching for 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
the Book of the
Brethren of Purity, which is really but the dregs of philosophy.
It is truly amazing that men should toil all their life long searching for 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