Tradition

Miracles 6.6 "All over the world, until quite modern times, the direct insight of the mystics and the reasonings of the philosophers percolated to the mass of the people by authority and **tradition**; they could be received by those who were no great reasoners themselves in the concrete form of myth and ritual and the whole pattern of life."

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process. //The Abolition of Man//, Chapter 2, paragraph 4