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We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Arnold Toynbee

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Tags: birth

We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race.

Arnold Toynbee

We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race.

Tags: civilization

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Arnold Toynbee may refer to:

Arnold Toynbee (historian, born 1852) (died 1883), British economic historian
Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975), British historian and author of A Study of History

Civilization is a movement - not a condition a voyage - not a harbour.

Arnold Toynbee

Civilization is a movement - not a condition a voyage - not a harbour.

Tags: civilization

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.

Arnold Toynbee

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.

Tags: history, historians