Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1910

Penciling in the margin of p.34, Arnold J. Toynbee, “Christianity and Civilization” (Burge Memorial Lecture delivered at Oxford 1940 May 23, published by Pendle Hill, Wallingford, Pennsylvania 1947

May 28, 1951

 

Original is in item 1907.

 

 

 

 

/Toynbee speaking of sin and suffering as something which men can “profit by as a means of grace on the principle of _________ ” – an expression in Greek which he translates in a footnote, “It is through suffering that learning comes.”/

 

 

     Suffering may turn men away from evil, from destruction and death, but it is only under inspiration that they can do good — create, be divine.