Arnold Joseph Toynbee. (№ 307989)

Quote Explanation: So succinctly at the end of his life formulated his credo [here the Moon in a figurative sense - history] world famous English historian, diplomat, social activist, sociologist and philosopher Arnold Joseph Toynbee, childhood keenly interested in the history of the peoples who do not fit into the traditional Eurocentric scheme, Persians, Carthaginians, Muslims, Chinese, Japanese, etc. Indeed, Toynbee as a historian all his life fought against narrow-minded Eurocentrism, insisting on the uniqueness of appearance of each civilization, and as a public figure and publicist against any attempts of the West to impose on other peoples and civilizations own system of values and evaluations as ultimate truth.