Monday, April 24, 2023
Born at Just the Right Time
Alfred J. Toynbee (1889-1975), A Study of History, Vol. X (London: Oxford Univerity Press, 1954), p. 5 (footnote omitted):
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[T]he longer the writer of this Study lived, the more glad he was that he had been born early enough in the Western Civilization's day to have been taken to church as a child every Sunday as a matter of course and to have received his formal education at a school and a university in which the study of the Greek and Latin classics, by which the Medieval Western study of Scripture and Theology had been replaced as a result of a fifteenth-century Italian renaissance, had not yet been ousted in its turn by a study of Western vernacular languages and literatures, Medieval and Modern Western history, and a latter-day Western physical science.
