Nov 15, 2009
Arnold Joseph Toynbee was born into a lower-middle-class family, rich intellectually if not socially. His family—including his grandfather, uncles, and parents—was scholarly, humanitarian, and pious. One uncle, also named Arnold Toynbee, earned distinction as a historian, philosopher, and reformer. Toynbee himself credited his mother, a historian and one of the first women to receive a degree from a British university, with first turning his thoughts to history. At Winchester and at Oxford, from which he was graduated in 1911, he received a traditional classical...
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