It is one of the great lessons of our study

that for the vulgar, ill- or uninstructed mind,

myths tend to become history

and there ensues a type of attachment 

to the mere accidents of the local forms

that, on the one hand, 

binds so-called believers into contending groups

and, on the other hand,

deprives them all of the substance of the message

each believes itself alone to have received.

All orthodoxies show this tendency in great or slight degree

and they are consequently mutually opposed.