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Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
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| Birth: | 14th April, 1889 |
| Death: | 22nd October, 1975 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Author, Historian, Professor |
About
Arnold Joseph Toynbee was a British historian, philosopher of history, research professor of International History at the London School of Economics and the University of London and author of numerous books. Toynbee in the 1918–1950 period was a leading specialist on international affairs. With his endless output of papers, articles, speeches and presentations, and numerous books translated into many languages, Toynbee was perhaps the world’s most read and discussed scholar in the 1940s and 1950s. Yet Toynbee's work lost favor among both the general public and scholars by the 1960s, due to the religious and spiritual outlook that permeates the largest part of his work. He was educated at Winchester College, Balliol College, Oxford, and studied briefly at the British School at Athens, an experience that influenced the genesis of his philosophy about the decline of civilizations.
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