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“This dogmatic and insistent moralism clearly ends by seriously impairing Toynbee's judgment. He refuses to concede what common experience teaches, namely that the wicked do quite often flourish like the green bay tree, that in human affairs force and violence are occasionally decisive, or that love and gentleness are sometimes productive of evil.”

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Book:The Chatham House Version: And Other Middle Eastern Studies
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The Chatham House Version: And Other Middle Eastern Studies

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