Convictions

"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 (1825-1895)
Source: On The Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge, 1866