Arnold Toynbee conducts his historical studies in a holistic way. He puts every civilization into the global scope and makes a comparative study of them.

汤因比的历史研究是从整体上进行的，他把每一个文明都放在世界的范围内比较研究。

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In a mysterious universe, says Arnold Toynbee, man tries to express what they can of the ineffable.

阿诺德·汤因比称，在神秘的宇宙中，人类总试图表达他们无法表达的东西。

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Ms Toynbee fantasises about them joining a militant one.

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Little did Toynbee suspect that as he was writing his premature obituary, a new generation was adopting the Lord of the Rings as its own.

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However, the American critic Edmund Wilson famously dismissed the work as "juvenile balderdash", and Philip Toynbee wrote in 1961 that Tolkien's works had "passed into a merciful oblivion".

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