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More from Arnold Joseph Toynbee

  1. The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

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  2. There is a kind of intellectual provincialism in the dogma that 'life is just one damned thing after another.' Human affairs do not become intelligible until t…

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  3. The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

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