If, however, one can get hold of that idea neither by means of defiance and ill-will nor by means of good-will (if one holds it for true –), then one yields and pays it homage as a prince and leader, accords it a seat of honour and speaks of it with pomp and pride: for in its glitter one glitters too.
If one cannot subjugate the idea, the new proposition, either by force or by nurturing then one puts on a pedestal and speaks to it with a pomp and pride
