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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.
- Arthur Keith
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#Be True
#Choose
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I am a rank individualist.
- Arthur Keith
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#I Am
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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.
- Arthur Keith
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#Peace
#Service
#Time
#War
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
- Arthur Keith
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#Man
#Person
#Reaction
Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.
- Arthur Keith
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#Mind
#Necessary
#Tolerance
Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.
- Arthur Keith
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#Discovery
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#Mankind
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.
- Arthur Keith
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#Diversity
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My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
- Arthur Keith
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#Science
#Truth
No tribe unites with another of its own free will.
- Arthur Keith
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A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
- Arthur Keith
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#Man
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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.
- Arthur Keith
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#Human
#Nature
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#Work
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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#Life
#Live
#Organization
#People
The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
- Arthur Keith
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#Life
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Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
- 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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#Imagination
#People
#Process
#War
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