A new idea

The regenerating passion by which we were animated in the student group has become an ideology, a network of fixed ideas, a cobweb. That is the proof that there is no escape for you, either. And you are only at the beginning of the parabola. That is the destiny of every new idea. It is crystallized in the formulas so that it may be propagated. it is entrusted to a body of interpreters so that it may be preserved. That body is prudently recruited, sometimes specifically paid for its task, and it subject to a superior authority whose duty it is to resolve doubts and suppress deviations from the line indicated by the masters. This every new idea invariably ends by becoming fixed, inflexible, parasitical, and reactionary.