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Arnold J. Toynbee: The Man Who Saw It All Coming

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Richard L. Johnson
Sep 17, 2024
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“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder,” mused Arnold Toynbee—the tweedy, soft-spoken prophet of cultural apocalypse. He peered through the dusty annals of history and saw, with chilling clarity, the trajectory of human civilization. Self-inflicted death, he said, as if to add insult to injury.

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