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• 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.

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  Cities, Organization, People

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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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.

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  Opportunity, Matter, Authority

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth.

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  Errors, Charm, Form

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• No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

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  Tribes, Free Will

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

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  Discovery, Agriculture, Groups

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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

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  War, Humanity, World

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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

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  Balance, Liberty, Problem

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• 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.

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  Civilization, Becoming, Experts

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• 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.

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  Men, Feelings, Evolution

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

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  Christian, Ancient, Universalism

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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