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
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.
discovery agriculture fertility
Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.
faith respect learning
As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.
cities organization people
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.
country fall civilization
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.