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
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.
men drunkards one-thing
A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
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.
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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?
christian men race
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.
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.
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.
momentum evolution human-nature
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.
war humanity world
The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.
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.
liberty balance problem
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
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The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.