…present and will certainly interfere with a lot of vested interests and the answer I'm afraid is no I mean my own well Toynbee has said this that it's these great these great comings together of states into vast empires have always been carried out by…

…the present and will certainly interfere with a lot of vested interests and the answer I'm afraid is no I mean my poor Toynbee has said this that it's a These great comings together of states into vast empires have always been carried out by conquest.…

…which, according to their own philosophy of life, they regard as particularly important and significant. Let me take an example from Toynbee. Here we have a philosophical historian, and let us hear what he says about the history of our time. He says,…

…which the philosophical historian deals. There is, of course, another aspect of history, not the very long-range aspect such as Toynbee is talking about. There is the short-range aspect of history, which he mentions as being the catastrophic events which fill…