"We are protected by the superstition.

Not even the Government of India would dare arouse the superstitious wrath of a people by inquiring too closely into what goes on beneath a temple.

If we were to admit that what we know is science, just as wireless telegraphy is a science, we would not be safe for an hour; the military, the kings of commerce, the merely curious, and all the enemies of mankind would invent ten thousand excuses of investigating us." "Where did you learn English ?" King demanded.
"I am a Ph.D.of Johns Hopkins," the Gray Mahatma answered.

"I have traveled all over the United States seeking for one man who might be trusted with the rudiments of our science.

But I found none." "Suppose you had found the wrong man--and trusted him ?" King suggested.
"My friend," said the Gray Mahatma, "you are better known to us than we to you.