Word: toynbean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
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