“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 asc...”
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“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 asc...”
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“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 protectio...”
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“Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.”
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“A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.”
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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...”
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“I am a rank individualist.”
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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...”
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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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“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...”
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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 o...”
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“Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.”
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