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Philosophic History and Prophecy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2009
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Professor Toynbee observes in his Study of History that as he walked down Whitehall one day in the spring of 1918, and passed the Board of Education offices which had been commandeered for a new department of the War Office, “improvised in order to make an intensive study of trench warfare,” he found himself repeating the passage from St. Matthew's Gospel:
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page 186 note 1 Volume III, pp. 167–168.
page 187 note 1 “Senseless” in Professor Whitehead's terminology (Adventures of Ideas). I have elsewhere used the term “blind.”
page 187 note 2 Posterior Analytics, Book I, Chapter VII.
page 187 note 3 Belief in this principle is Höffding's definition of religion.
page 188 note 1 The number is later given as twenty-one by division of the “Orthodox Christian” and the “Far Eastern” Societies.
page 190 note 1 Sir James Jeans.
page 191 note 1 Das Problem des Geistigen Seins.
page 192 note 1 Volume III, p. 248.