Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
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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.Arthur Keith
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
Arthur Keith
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
There is no way of getting rid of war save one, and that is to rid human nature of the sanctions imposed on it by the law of evolution.
Arthur Keith
Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.
Arthur Keith
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.
Arthur Keith
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