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Arnold Toynbee Quote

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

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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.

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About Arnold Toynbee

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