A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert--himself.

The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt--the Divine Reason.

Huxley preached a humility content to learn from Nature.

But the new sceptic is so humble that he doubts if he can even learn.