"There are the further difficulties of building a……" — Arthur Keith
"There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues."
—
Arthur Keith
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
31 Quotes by Arthur Keith
Arthur Keith has 31 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which…
-
No tribe unites with another of its own free will.
-
Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.
-
The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of…
-
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
-
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our…
-
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
-
We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only…
-
The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.
-
Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural…
-
Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more…
-
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain…
See all 31 quotes by Arthur Keith »
More Babel Quotes
This quote is filed under Babel Quotes,
one of 26 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
-
"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh,"…
— Douglas Adams
-
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak…
— Peter Kreeft
-
Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been…
— Marshall McLuhan
-
A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
— Alexander Smith
-
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to…
— Adam Sedgwick
-
I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than…
— Benjamin Franklin
-
I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of…
— Charles Darwin
-
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
-
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our…
— Luther Burbank
-
The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
-
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
— Franz Kafka
See all 26 Babel Quotes »