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The idea may previously have come intuitively to them, but too weakly to have directly influenced them. Yet when they read it formulated effectively in words and put into print by someone who is expert in both writing and the subject itself, the likelihood of acceptance is so very much more that a result like conversion is not seldom produced. When the readers find their secret but uncertain thought openly proclaimed in the strong language of direct knowledge and personal conviction, they may submit to its authority in a single transforming moment.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 162