![]() ![]() Toynbee's idea germinated for about six years, for real work on “A Study of History” was not undertaken until 192728, when he elaborated his outline into detailed notes. Yet, before I went to sleep that night, I found that I had put down on half a sheet of notepaper a list of topics which, in its contents and their order, was substantially identical with the plan of this book as it now stands.” “If I had been cross‐examined on my activities during that day, I should have sworn that my attention had been wholly absorbed by the entrancing scenes that were passing continually before my outward eye. ![]() “That evening I was still, standing at the window, overwhelmed by the beauty of the Bela Palanka Gorge in the light of the full moon, as our train bore down upon Nish,” he recalled, adding: He had ,spent the day watching the awesome Thracian, countryside slip by and pondering the region's glorious and gory past. 17, 1921, when the author was traveling west from Istanbul on the fabled Orient Express. He was 86 years old and had been incapacitated for the last 14 months as a result of stroke.įew works of history had such a precise and romantic origin as Arnold Joseph Toynlbee's “A Study of History.” Theģ½‐million word, 12‐volume Istory of mankind, which took 40 years to complete, was begun on Saturday, Sept. Arnold Toynbee, the historian of the rise and fall of civilizations, died yesterday at a nursing home in York, England. ![]()
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