Quote Arnold J. Toynbee A Life


Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life 

William H McNeill

Oxford University Press, New York, 1990. 354 pages.

What allows us to bracket Toynbee with Dante and Milton is that all three of them devoted heroic effort to the task of reaffirming and redefining the world's intelligibility in the light of everything they knew and believed to be true. Their respective understandings of things human and divine belong to and help to define the tradition of Western Christendom.  page 287.

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