Acting under the advice of men who have no understanding, we destroy that which is improvable by health....';

Why ask advice of someone you know doesn't know? Why give it if you know you don't know? I guess the question is ';Who's more foolish?';Acting under the advice of men who have no understanding, we destroy that which is improvable by health....';
I think that what the author is trying to say is that sometimes when we ask questions about stuff, we ask other people who don't know, when we could just wait and find out for ourselves instead of getting what is likely a wrong answer.Acting under the advice of men who have no understanding, we destroy that which is improvable by health....';
I am left hanging because your words by themselves have no bearing upon any circumstance of which I am familiar.


I would be forced to invent a context in order to make sense of your phrase.