In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
Arthur Keith
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.
Arthur Keith
Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.
Arthur Keith
Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.
Arthur Keith
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.
Arthur Keith
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
Arthur Keith
The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.
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