"Lincoln Steffens has a fable of a man who climbed to the top of a mountain and, standing on tiptoe, seized hold of the Truth. Satan, suspecting mischief from this upstart, had directed one of his underlings to tail him; but when the demon reported with alarm the man's success--that he had seized hold of the Truth--Satan was unperturbed. "Don't worry," he yawned. "I'll tempt him to institutionalize it." That"