Arthur Keith Civilization Quotations

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

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.

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.

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.

Civilization seeks to suppress all those primitive instincts in man which formed the main part of the machinery of his evolution in earlier times.