Arnold Toynbee
Arnold Toynbee may refer to:Arnold Toynbee, British economic historian Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975), British historian and author of A Study of History
Background
- Born in
- London
- Educated at
- Balliol CollegeWinchester College
- Awards
- 🏆 Companion of Honour🏆 Fellow of the British Academy🏆 doctor honoris causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University🏆 honorary doctor of the Federal University of Ceará🏆 honorary doctor of the University of Calcutta
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Trending topics shown first"Excerpts from "On Arnold Toynbee" by Alfred Marshall", edited by John K. Whitaker, Marshall Studies Bulletin 6 , p. 45–48"
"It would be well if, in studying the past, we could always bear in mind the problems of the present, and go to that past to seek large views of what is of lasting importance to the human race."
"The Comtists are right when they say that men's moral ideas are not fixed. The attitude of public opinion towards slavery was completely changed in twenty or thirty years. Still I am obliged to believ…"
"Party historians go to the past for party purposes; they seek to read into the past the controversies of the present."
"The destruction of the old bonds between employers and workmen was not peculiar to manufactures; it came to pass in agriculture also. An agrarian as well as an industrial revolution had taken place. S…"
"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."
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1889
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Birth1975
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