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When they push their sectarianism to extremes, as they often do, they become exclusive, blind to truth anywhere else except their own beliefs. Even where they accept in theory that truth has more than a single spokesman, they desert this liberalism in practice. The sectarians shut out the spirit bequeathed by the great enlightenments, and let in what suits them of the letter. As for sectarian public propagandists, it is from their ranks that, given the chance and the power, the great fanatics and even the great persecutors emerge.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 11 : Fanaticism, Money, Powers, Drugs > # 20