So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.
More from Arnold Joseph Toynbee
The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.
Permalink to quote #2 Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
Permalink to quote #3 The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens,…
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