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
liberty balance problem
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
momentum evolution human-nature
Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.
men civilization law
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.
giving community mental-health
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.
jesus taught birth
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.
religious men leader
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?
civilization tolerance mind
Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.
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.