Arnold Toynbee - Movement Quotes

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It is a great law of social development that the movement from slavery to freedom is also a movement from security to insecurity of maintenance.

Arnold Toynbee

In the middle of the last century there was comparatively little movement of workmen from place to place ; but Adam Smith's fierce attack on the law of settlement shows that migration was on the increase. The world was, in fact, on the eve of an industrial revolution ; and it is interesting to remember that the two men who did most to bring it about, Adam Smith and James Watt, met, as I have mentioned, in Glasgow, when one was dreaming of the book, and the other of the invention, which were to introduce a new industrial age.

Arnold Toynbee

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Arnold Toynbee