Arthur Keith
Arthur Keith
Sir Arthur Keith FRSwas a Scottish anatomist and anthropologist. He was a fellow and later the Hunterian Professor and conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth5 February 1866
I am a rank individualist.
opportunity matter authority
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.
war self organization
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.
errors charm form
No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth.
discovery world plot
This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot.
men feelings evolution
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.
christian ancient universalism
Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.
war mean imagination
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.
race diversity population
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.
jealous men ambitious
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
men liberty passionate
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
strong desire reason
Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
civilization experts becoming
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.
government people universalism
Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.