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...World's other West-fearing civilizations -Islam, India, the Far East - have adopted Western technology and ideas in self-defense. But the World has accepted only the more trivial parts of 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...
...Graduate Student Council, whose election procedures were recently attacked in your columns by a J. Peter Prins 1G, has been the first to admit that it very often does resemble a "creative minority" in the Toynbean sense. We are hot unaware of the disadvantages of this role, however, but find it forced upon us by the lack of cohesiveness in graduate life...
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