Toynbee and History: Critical Essays and Reviews

Synopsis

Toynbee argues, "We need to break down the traditional partition, and to throw history and the social sciences together into a single comprehensive study of human affairs." (Pg. 5) He admits,"More than twenty-seven years have now passed since I began to make my first notes ... and I am conscious that, during these years, my outlook has changed. As I have gone on, religion has come, once again, to take the central place in my picture of the Universe. Yet I have not returned to the religious outlook in which I was brought up... I have now come to believe that all the historic religions and philosophies are partial revelations of the truth..." (Pg. 6)" [from an Amazon reviewer]

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1956

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Global

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