Quotes from 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.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

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.

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

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

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

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.

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

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