Word: techno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western civilization: it resolutely rejects Western religion and values. Here, Toynbee's readers get a new Toynbean equation, the Law of En counters: "When a traveling culture-ray is diffracted into its component strands ... by the resistance of a social body upon which it has impinged, its techno logical strand is apt to penetrate faster and further than its religious strand ..." Since the World has turned Western technology on its creators and has reject ed Western faith, while the West itself has lost its Christianity, is there any hope? Of course, answers Toynbee in the voice...