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The Reith Lectures THE WORLD AND THE WEST

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by Arnold Toynbee
4-The Far East
In this talk Professor Toynbee speaks about the way in which Far Eastern peoples have reacted to different presentations of Western civilisation in different ages. In his view it was easier for them to accept a strange Western technology tn the nineteenth and twentieth centuries than to accept a strange Western religion in the sixteenth ceotury.

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