circa 1948

Toynbee, Arnold, fl. 1948

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Title: [Excerpt from p. 15 of "Civilization on Trial"]

Discusses the possibility of a divine plan behind the rise and fall of civilizations and speculates that the means of progress in the plan is the learning caused by suffering due to civilization's failures. He cites, for example, Abraham as "an emigre from a civilization in extremis," and wonders what spiritual enlightenment might emerge from the trials of the "displaced persons" in our time.

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