"Tribal life comes automatically to an end when……" — Arthur Keith
"Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city."
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31 Quotes by Arthur Keith
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Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which…
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No tribe unites with another of its own free will.
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Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.
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The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of…
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My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
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The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our…
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The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
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We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only…
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The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.
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Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural…
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Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more…
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Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain…
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