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ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE. for at least 600,000 and perhaps a million years , life for at least 500 million and perhaps 800 million years , and the planet itself for possibly 2000 million years . On this time scale the last five or six thousand ...
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE. for at least 600,000 and perhaps a million years , life for at least 500 million and perhaps 800 million years , and the planet itself for possibly 2000 million years . On this time scale the last five or six thousand ...
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... least in so far as I myself am able to conceive what the goal may be like . But if there have been a few ... least uncivilized society at its least uncivilized moment , the vast majority of its members have remained very near indeed to ...
... least in so far as I myself am able to conceive what the goal may be like . But if there have been a few ... least uncivilized society at its least uncivilized moment , the vast majority of its members have remained very near indeed to ...
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... least six hundred thousand years before that , attained the modest level of social and moral achievement that we call ' civilization . ' I call the recent change in the map ' contemporary ' because the four or five centuries during ...
... least six hundred thousand years before that , attained the modest level of social and moral achievement that we call ' civilization . ' I call the recent change in the map ' contemporary ' because the four or five centuries during ...
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My View of History | 3 |
The Present Point in History | 16 |
Does History Repeat Itself? | 29 |
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