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Sir Arthur Keith FRS (5 February 1866 – 7 January 1955) was a Scottish anatomist and anthropologist, and a proponent of scientific racism. He was a fellow and later the Hunterian Professor and conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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

Desire, Reason, Strong

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.

Becoming, Civilization, Evolving, Experts, Terms

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.

Ascent, Christianity, Civilization, Law, Men

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?

Desire, Men, Part, Possible, Religious, Science

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.

Evolution, Feelings, Men, Prevalence, Scheme, Universalist

Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.

Alternatives, Believe, Creation, Special, Unprovable, Unproved

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.

Different, Diversity, Further, Population, Race, Restraint

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

Force, Hitherto, Humanity, War, World

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

Civilization, Encouraged, Mind, Necessary, Tolerance

I am a rank individualist.

Individualist, Rank

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

Agriculture, Big, Discovery, Firsts, Life

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

Ancient, Balance, Individual, Liberty, Problem

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.

Ethical, Mean, People, Terror, War

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.

Authority, Lived, Matter, Opportunity, True

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

Free, Free Will, Tribe, Tribes, Unites

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.

Consistently, Fuhrer, Germany, Maintained, Practice, Theory Of Evolution

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

Drunkard, Drunkards, Men, One Thing, Quite, Thing

In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.

Becomes, Organization, Seeking, Self, War

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

Christianity, Footstool, Made, Nationalism, Opposites

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

Concerned, Conviction, Ethics, Growth, Science, Truth

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