"Master, why do you always tell us that books, even with the greatest nonsense in them, should not be burned because they may make us think? Was it not far better indeed, to tell us what books not to read, even take them out of the library? In that way, we can concentrate on True Words."
"Great Scott! Would you like the Church of the True Word, to even resemble that of e.g. Islam, Roman Catholic and so on? Says not Sherlock Holmes: 'One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature' (Doyle, Scarlet)? And then in Wyndham's Outward Urge. 'There is many a flower which would not be growing if the dung had not happened to fall where it did'.
It is why ALL of you are free to read ANY books you can lay your hands on. If you ask me advice, I will give it. But no 'Verbot', no banning, banishing, burning."
"But what if one of the young ones gets converted to a superstition; sperrits, pseudoanalysis, democrazy, or even parapseudology?"
"There is not much chance of that. We would have failed in a colossal Way. Can you imagine that? We are the best!"
"Indeed, Master, I am completely satisfied now. Let all books stay."