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Toynbee

noun
1.
English historian who studied the rise and fall of civilizations looking for cyclical patterns (1889-1975).  Synonyms: Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Arnold Toynbee.





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... of middle-class society in England was stirred. The result was Toynbee Hall and the Settlements-movement, which afterwards found praiseworthy counterparts in Germany. Society had begun to understand the wrong which it had done to its brothers, the proletariat, whom it had robbed of mind, and offered them instead soul-destroying, mechanical labour. Then choice spirits ...
— The New Society • Walther Rathenau


Words linked to "Toynbee" :   historian, historiographer


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