Quotes of Arthur Keith - somelinesforyou

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

- Arthur Keith

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

- Arthur Keith

“ 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

“ No tribe unites with another of its own free will. ”

- Arthur Keith

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

- Arthur Keith

“ The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life. ”

- Arthur Keith

“ 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. ”

- Arthur Keith

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

- Arthur Keith

“ The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life. ”

- Arthur Keith

“ 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. ”

- Arthur Keith

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

- Arthur Keith

“ Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects. ”

- Arthur Keith

“ 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. ”

- Arthur Keith

“ The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts. ”

- Arthur Keith

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

- Arthur Keith

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

- Arthur Keith

“ 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. ”

- Arthur Keith

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

- Arthur Keith

“ 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. ”

- Arthur Keith

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

- Arthur Keith

“ Civilization seeks to suppress all those primitive instincts in man which formed the main part of the machinery of his evolution in earlier times. ”

- Arthur Keith

“ Civilization seeks to suppress all those primitive instincts in man which formed the main part of the machinery of his evolution in earlier times. ”

- Arthur Keith

“ 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

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

- Arthur Keith

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

- Arthur Keith

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- Arthur Keith

“ 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. ”

- Arthur Keith

“ 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. ”

- Arthur Keith
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