43 Quotes by Arthur Keith

...the student of prehistoric man...cannot reject [the Castenedolo skull] as false without doing injury to his sense of truth, and he cannot accept it as fact without shattering his accepted beliefs.

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

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.

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

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

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.

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.

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.