Arthur Keith Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.”

“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.”

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