Arnold Toynbee Quote

It would be well if, in studying the past, we could always bear in mind the problems of the present, and go to that past to seek large views of what is of lasting importance to the human race.

p. 31 - Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England (1884)

It would be well if, in studying the past, we could always bear in mind the problems of the present, and go to that past to seek large views of what...

It would be well if, in studying the past, we could always bear in mind the problems of the present, and go to that past to seek large views of what...

It would be well if, in studying the past, we could always bear in mind the problems of the present, and go to that past to seek large views of what...

It would be well if, in studying the past, we could always bear in mind the problems of the present, and go to that past to seek large views of what...