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
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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.
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A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
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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.
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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 earnestly desire to solve, if a solution be ever possible, that great riddle: Why are we here?
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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.
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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.
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Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
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In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
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Force and fear are the driving power behind this regional kind of Universalism. Love and brotherhood have had no part in its spread.
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A man of science is responsible for the accuracy of his observations and of his inferences, not for the results which may follow therefrom.
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Civilization seeks to suppress all those primitive instincts in man which formed the main part of the machinery of his evolution in earlier times.
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Thus I hold that individual liberties, so long as they do not endanger the unity and welfare of the community or tribe, have an evolutionary value.
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Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.
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Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.