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| Arnold J. Toynbee
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. History is a vision of God's creation on the move. I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book. 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. There is a kind of intellectual provincialism in the dogma that life is just one damned thing after another. human affairs do not become intelligible until they are seen as a whole. |
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