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The teaching was mantled in secrecy not as an anti-democratic device to preserve it for the exclusive benefit of the ruling classes--although that is how it worked out in practice--but as a necessity forced upon its custodians by a realization of the limitations on the mind of the multitude.

-- Notebooks Category 20: What Is Philosophy? > Chapter 2 : Its Contemporary Influence > # 172