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Arthur Keith Quotes

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

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

Man Person Liberty Passionate Every

I am a rank individualist.

I Am Rank Am 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 me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.

Me Opportunities Choose Be True True

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

Christian More Old Ancient Than Nay

Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.

People Nowhere Forcing Forced

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 inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.

Nature Women Men Place Evolution

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.

Diversity Building Evolution Need

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 lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.

Understand Never Birth Realize Lived

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 stages of man's ascent.

Man Find Civilization Against Laws

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 body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.

Nature Experience Mind Body Back

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.

Find Complicated Just Because More

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.

Mind Tolerance Civilization Necessary

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