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really are.
But how far from the truth this is, because the fulfillment of noble desire is not found in
disputation. In
fact the perplexity and confusion consequent on disputation surpass anything which it may reveal or
unfold. If you were to hear that from a scholar of the prophetic quotations or a semi- scholar you
would
think that men are the enemies of that of which they are ignorant.
Take it, then, from one who has familiarized himself with disputation and, after a careful study
and a
thorough investigation of it in which he surpassed the extreme limits of its masters and went even
further to study in great detail other cognate subjects, has come to dislike it, and has
ascertained that
the road to the realities of knowledge is closed from this direction.
Disputation, as a matter of fact, will inevitably reveal, unfold and clarify a few things, but this
is very
rare and only occurs in simple and clear matters which are readily understood even before any
thorough
But how far from the truth this is, because the fulfillment of noble desire is not found in
disputation. In
fact the perplexity and confusion consequent on disputation surpass anything which it may reveal or
unfold. If you were to hear that from a scholar of the prophetic quotations or a semi- scholar you
would
think that men are the enemies of that of which they are ignorant.
Take it, then, from one who has familiarized himself with disputation and, after a careful study
and a
thorough investigation of it in which he surpassed the extreme limits of its masters and went even
further to study in great detail other cognate subjects, has come to dislike it, and has
ascertained that
the road to the realities of knowledge is closed from this direction.
Disputation, as a matter of fact, will inevitably reveal, unfold and clarify a few things, but this
is very
rare and only occurs in simple and clear matters which are readily understood even before any
thorough