>>Ponder well: all innovation is not going to lead to tradition:yea verily, not even the one hundredth of a one hundredth part. <<
I agree with the general sentiment of that observation, though I'd quibble about the exact ratio. But the really important thing is to keep scattering the seeds, even if most of them do seem to fall on stony ground. (See St Mark's gospel, ch4, verses 3-8). Or as William Morris put it in more secular language, in "The Dream of John Ball":
"... I pondered on all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes, turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name - while I pondered all this, John Ball began to speak again. ' ... he who doeth well in fellowship, and because of fellowship, shall not fail though he seem to fail today, but in days hereafter shall he and his work yet be alive, and men be holpen by them to strive again, and yet again'. "