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Arthur Keith
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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.
Opportunity
Matter
Authority
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.
War
Mean
Imagination
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.
Men
Feelings
Evolution
Universalism As An Ideal Is As Old As Nay, Is Probably Much More Ancient Than The Christian Ideal.
Christian
Ancient
Universalism
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.
Civilization
Becoming
Experts
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.
Giving
Community
Mental Health
No Tribe Unites With Another Of Its Own Free Will.
Tribes
Free Will
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?
Religious
Science
Men
Tolerance Is Held To Be A Condition Of Mind Which Is Encouraged By, And Is Necessary For, Civilization.
Civilization
Tolerance
Mind
No Tempting Form Of Error Is Without Some Latent Charm Derived From Truth.
Errors
Charm
Form
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.
Christian
Men
Race
This World Of Ours Has Been Constructed Like A Superbly Written Novel: We Pursue The Tale With Avidity, Hoping To Discover The Plot.
Discovery
Plot
World
The Proper Balance Between Individual Liberty And Central Authority Is A Very Ancient Problem.
Balance
Liberty
Problem
A Drunkard Is One Thing, And A Temperate Man Is Quite Another.
Men
Drunkards
One Thing
I Am A Rank Individualist.
The Main Force Used In The Evolving World Of Humanity Has Hitherto Been Applied In The Form Of War.
War
Humanity
World
Before The Discovery Of Agriculture Mankind Was Everywhere So Divided, The Size Of Each Group Being Determined By The Natural Fertility Of Its Locality.
Discovery
Agriculture
Groups
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.
Practice
Theory Of Evolution
Germany
Man Is By Nature Competitive, Combative, Ambitious, Jealous, Envious, And Vengeful.
Jealous
Men
Ambitious
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.
Cities
Organization
People
Christianity Has Not Conquered Nationalism; The Opposite Has Been The Case Nationalism Has Made Christianity Its Footstool.
Opposites
Christianity
Cases
Nowhere Is Universalism Welcomed And Encouraged By A People; Everywhere Governments Have Forced And Are Forcing Universalism Upon Unwilling And Resistant Subjects.
Government
People
Universalism
As Long As Man Remains An Inquiring Animal, There Can Never Be A Complete Unanimity In Our Fundamental Beliefs. The More Diverse Our Paths, The Greater Is Likely To Be The Divergence Of Beliefs.
Faith
Respect
Learning
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.
Country
Fall
Civilization
Born: February 5, 1866
Died: January 7, 1955
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