Note 305 — Chapter III · ORGANIZED INTELLIGENCE

Some students—e.g., Joseph McCabe, The Tyranny of Shams, London, 1916, p. 248—are so impressed with the dangers lying in our vast production of written trash that they favor restricting the circulation of cheap fiction in our public libraries. But what we have to do is not to prohibit the evil but to encourage the good, to give positive stimulus rather than negative prohibition. People hate compulsion, but they grope for guidance.