Now civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet.
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Civilization on Trial (1948), chapter 4, p. 56.Arnold Joseph Toynbee
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