Even a priest cannot pronounce it without sin; and a holy Pundit would shut his ears and run away from you in horror, if you should say it aloud.

What do you care for O'm?
If you wanted to get the Pundit to look at his religion fairly, you must first depolarize this and all similar words for him.

The argument for and against new translations of the Bible really turns on this.

Skepticism is afraid to trust its truths in depolarized words, and so cries out against a new translation.

I think, myself, if every idea our Book contains could be shelled out of its old symbol and put into a new, clean, unmagnetic word, we should have some chance of reading it as philosophers, or wisdom-lovers, ought to read it,--which we do not and cannot now any more than a Hindoo can read the "Gayatri" as a fair man and lover of truth should do.