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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Arnold Toynbee
Born: August 23, 1852
Died: March 9, 1883 (aged 30)
Bio: Arnold Toynbee was a British economic historian also noted for his social commitment and desire to improve the living conditions of the working classes.
Known for:
- A Study of History
- Mankind and Mother Earth
- The Western question in Greece and Turkey
- Choose Life
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