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Page 2 of 2Arthur Keith
February 5, 1866 - January 7, 1955
Nationality: Scottish
Category: Scientist
Subcategory: Scottish Scientist
|  The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war. | | Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization. | | Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful. | | Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects. | | 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. | | 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. |
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