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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.

Arthur Keith

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

Arthur Keith

Nature

Man

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.

Arthur Keith

Civilization

Experts

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

Arthur Keith

Liberty

Man

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.

I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.

Arthur Keith

Authority

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.

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, 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.

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

Arthur Keith

Christianity

Nationalism

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.

Arthur Keith

Man

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

I am a rank individualist.

Arthur Keith

Rank

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.