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Arthur Keith

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


— Arthur Keith


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No tribe unites with another of its own free will.


— Arthur Keith


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


— Arthur Keith


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Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.


— Arthur Keith


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The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.


— Arthur Keith


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The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.


— Arthur Keith


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


— Arthur Keith


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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


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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.


— Arthur Keith


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Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.


— Arthur Keith


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The Antiquity of Man (1915 2d ed. Out of this special population sprang the Industrial Revolution centred on the colder Northern counties of England like Lancashire and Yorkshire where the high-tech developments of the time took place in spinning and weaving. European hypothesis
British anthropologists Arthur Keith and Grafton Elliot Smith were both fixed on European origin of humankind and were in opposition to models of Asia and African origin.

Man had evolved he claimed through his tendency to live in small competing communities a tendency which was at root determined by racial differences in his 'genetic substrate'. A leading figure in the study of human fossils he became President of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Sir Arthur Keith (5 February 1866 – 7 January 1955) was a Scottish anatomist and anthropologist who became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Hunterian Professor and conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London (not to be confused with the Hunterian Museum Glasgow Scotland; the two were founded by brothers).

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