HISTORY: THE IDIOT’S TALE
There can be no unity of Mankind without the participation of God; and, conversely, when the heavenly pilot is dropped, Man not only lapses into discord which is at variance with his natural sociality; he is also tormented by a tragic crux which is inherent in his being a social creature… …History, seen solely from the standpoint of each individual human participant in it, is “a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.” But this apparently senseless “sound and fury” acquires spiritual meaning when Man catches in History a glimpse of the operation of the one True God. From A Study of History, by Arnold Joseph Toynbee, published by Oxford University Press, London, 1957, pg. 106
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