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Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889-1975), English Universal Historian :A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man. America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. Civilization is a movement, not a condition; it is a voyage, not a harbor. Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. History is a vision of God's creation on the move. I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil. I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. The equation of religion with belief is rather recent. The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue. The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
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