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Arthur Keith Quotes

Scottish - Scientist | February 5, 1866 - January 7, 1955

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

Life Step Agriculture Discovery Big

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

Free Free Will Will Tribe Own

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

Nationalism Opposite Been Made Case

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

Nature Man Jealous Competitive

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 or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.

Time Service Peace War Organization

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

Balance Problem Liberty Authority

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.

Life Live People City Organization

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

Truth Science Ethics Personal Wholly

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 escape the observation of our senses.

Nature Good Men Desire Escape Our

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

War World Humanity Evolving Force

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 weld the German people into a tribal whole.

Imagination War People Process Force

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 at work in all modern communities.

Work Nature Human Existence See

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