About Arthur Keith: Sir Arthur Keith was a Scottish anatomist and anthropologist, who became a fellow and later Hunterian Professor and conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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.
Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.
Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.
No tribe unites with another of its own free will.
Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
...the student of prehistoric man...cannot reject [the Castenedolo skull] as false without doing injury to his sense of truth, and he cannot accept it as fact without shattering his accepted beliefs.
The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.
