Arthur Keith
Anthropologist
1866-02-05 – 1955-01-07
Scottish anatomist and physical anthropologist known for work on fossil humans and comparative anatomy. He was a leading public scientific figure in early 20th-century Britain. He died in 1955.
Quotes by Arthur Keith
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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.
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A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
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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.
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The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
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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.
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No tribe unites with another of its own free will.
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Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
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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.
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