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"No reason to; but take note that the mistake can only arise in

the first category, that is among the ordinary people (as I

perhaps unfortunately called them). In spite of their

predisposition to obedience very many of them, through a

playfulness of nature, sometimes vouchsafed even to the cow, like

to imagine themselves advanced people, 'destroyers,' and to push

themselves into the 'new movement,' and this quite sincerely.

Meanwhile the really new people are very often unobserved by

them, or even despised as reactionaries of grovelling tendencies.

But I don't think there is any considerable danger here, and you

really need not be uneasy for they never go very far.