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Tocqueville
Gregory of Tours

Arnold Toynbee

Charles-Alexis-Henri Clerel de Tocqueville
b. 7-29-1805; France
d. 4-16-1859

• Tocqueville: Democracy in America
• Alexis de Tocqueville quote on Civil Rights

Saint Gregory of Tours
née Georgius Florentius
b. 538; Clermont, Auvergne, Gaul (France)
d. 11-17-594; Tours

Gregory, historian and Bishop of Tours, whose most notable work was Decem Libri Historiarum or Ten Books of Histories, better known as the Historia Francorum (“History of the Franks”), is the main contemporary source for Merovingian history.

Arnold J. Toynbee
b. 4-14-1889; London
d. 10-2-1975

Arnold Toynbee quotes ~
• “A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.”
• “Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.”
• “As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.”
• “Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.”
• “History is a vision of God's creation on the move.”
• “I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.”
• “The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.”
• “The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.”
• “The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.”

• A Study of History, Toynbee

George Macaulay Trevelyan
b. 2-16-1876; England
d. 7-21-1962

Historian G. M. Trevelyan's writings espoused that the common people had a more positive effect on history than did royalty and that democratic government would bring about steady social progress.