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These fine teachings may quickly be distorted by popularization or greatly cheapened when brought within reach of the common understanding. If their integrity is to go in order to make concessions to the sensate mentality, if their truth is to be adulterated in order to accommodate the mass mentality, then whatever is gained will be less than what is lost. The higher truth can and should be translated into the vulgate for a mass audience--and the attempt is being made--but no unworthy compromises should be made. After all, if men want to learn the partly true, partly false, they can do so from a hundred sources. But if they want the wholly true, how few are the sources to which they can turn! Let us keep at least these few inviolate.

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 6 : Philosophy and Religion > # 53