Arthur Keith Quotes

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• Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects. Encouraged
• Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever. Desire
• 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… Babel
• Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to… Employed
• Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal. Ancient
• There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our… Altogether
• 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… Automatically
• Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful. Ambitious
• The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life. Agriculture
• Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to… Christian
• Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization. Civilization

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