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He will have to put up with unthinking and ill-formed opposition from his environment, from friends and family alike. They may become openly alarmed at his deviation from the so-called normal but really abnormal standards which rule them, take fright at symptoms of purification which may develop, and cry out about his impending illness or dissolution and other imaginary disasters. Others, more indulgent, will tolerantly smile at his eccentricity, his fanaticism, as their prejudice will name it. But in the sequence, if he demonstrates the obvious benefits of his reform by abounding health, vigour, and cheerfulness, this opposition may die down and vanish.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 2 : Living in The World > # 364