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This passage asks us to search ourselves. It tells us that all the book knowledge and logic will not overcome a self-deception of dual purposes.

And what is your attitude toward others? Are you at one with all- by willing only one thing? Or do you contentiously belong to a party, or is your hand raised against you? Do you wish for all others what you wish for yourself, or do you desire the highest thing of all for you and yours, or do you desire that they should do unto you- by willing one thing? For this will is the eternal order that governs all things, that brings you into union with the dead, and with the men whom you never see, with foreign people whose language and customs you do not know, with all men upon the whole earth, who are related to each by blood and eternally related to the Divine by eternity's task of willing only one thing. Do you wish, that there should be another law for you and yours than for others? Do you wish to find your consolation in something other than that in which each man without exception may and shall find consolation?