What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-…

Thomas Huxley
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What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of belief; that merit attaches to readiness to believe; that the doubting disposition is a bad one, and skepticism is a sin. ✨ Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews, p.17
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