Doubt Quote - Henry Lloyd 1896

The Will to Doubt was Lloyd's fourth book and was published as a volume in the Ethical Library Series. The book was a response to William James' 1896 collection of essays titled The Will to Believe. Professor Lloyd's simple thesis is that "doubt is essential to real belief". He wrote at the beginning of the 20th century, in what he called an age of doubt: "We would often hide it from others, not to say from ourselves, but it is there, and we all know it to be there.[10] Though many fear doubt, and try to keep it hidden and locked away, the confession of doubt is in fact the beginning of philosophy.

Fear is a chief motivator of dogmatism, and dogmatic people are slaves to their fears. This is not genuine confidence. But doubt is not the road to atheism; in fact, doubt is part of a very difficult road to theism. Paraphrase from Henry Lloyd quote - “There are three ways by which an individual can get wealth-by work, by gift, and by theft. And, clearly, the reasons why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.”