New truth is often inconvenient to some vested interest ; the Protestant doctrine that it is not necessary to fast on Fridays was vehemently resisted by Elizabethan fishmongers. But it is in the interest of the community at large that new truth should be freely promulgated.
Source: Religion and Science, 1935, chapt. 10: Conclusion
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