The Age of World Building Has Begun

Toynbee remarks in one of his essays that for an Englishman in 1897 history seemed to have come to an end. Everything he knew was there to stay, in home as well as in foreign and imperial affairs. To someone considering the question from the historical vantage point of 1947, as Toynbee was, the belief seemed sheer lunacy, and yet this is a kind of lunac…