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Too many writers on spiritual subjects make too great an attempt to appear omniscient. Perhaps they are emotionally carried away by the force of their convictions--as I once was. Perhaps it is one of the traps which beset the path of writing. Perhaps it is nothing else than puffed-up conceit. But the end result, in any case, is to delude the reader.

-- Notebooks Category 12: Reflections > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Truth > # 40