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TOYNBEE

                                             July 16, 2010


  Arnold J. Toybee, "A Study of History"

  This fellow has a reputation as a
  follower of Oswald Spengler, but
  Not As Crazy... so I had some hopes
  he might not be a complete charlatan
  or madman.

  But ye gods, what a pompous fool.

      "And now, having explored the extension of
      our Western Society in space, we have to
      consider its extension in time; and we are
      at once confronted with the fact that we
      cannot know its future-- a limitation
      which greatly resticts the amount of light
      that the study of this particular society,
      or of any of the still extant societies,
      can throw on the nature of the species to
      which these societies belong.  We must
      content ourselves with the exploration of
      our Western Society's beginnings."


                                     UNLIKELY_PLACES

  This "groping for enlightment in
  unlikely places" can be rough work.
                                              (Speaking of
                                              pompous fools...)





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