Arthur Keith Quotes

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• Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both…
• 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 Germany conform to the theory…
• 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 hearts.
• 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 by birth, but that he…
• 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 fertility of its locality.
• Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to…
• Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see…
• A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
• Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.
• Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier…
• I am a rank individualist.
• I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested…
• In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe…
• In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
• It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

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