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
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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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.
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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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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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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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Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.
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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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The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.
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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.
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The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
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No tribe unites with another of its own free will.
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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?