British Historian Arnold J. Toynbee describes HOW and WHY American Sovereignty Should Be Ended… We Happen to Disagree

Author: Richard Grove•June 18, 2013
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Via my correspondence with Kevin Cole:

A few words from Arnold J. Toynbee in the RIIA Journal (Click the Links to check your premises in the WebBrain):

“If we are frank with ourselves, we shall admit that we are engaged on a deliberate and sustained and concentrated effort to impose limitations upon the sovereignty and independence of the fifty or sixty local sovereign independent States which at present partition the habitable surface of the earth and divide the political allegiance of mankind.

It is just because we are really attacking the principle of local sovereignty that we keep on protesting our loyalty to it so loudly. The harder we press our attack upon the idol, the more pains we take to keep its priests and devotees in a fool’s paradise—lapped in a false sense of security which will inhibit them from taking up arms in their idol’s defense. The local national state, invested with the attributes of sovereignty—is an abomination of desolation standing in the place where it ought not. It has stood in that place now—demanding and receiving human sacrifices from its poor deluded votaries—for four or five centuries. Our political task in our generation is to cast the abomination out, to cleanse the temple and to restore the worship of the divinity to whom the temple rightfully belongs. In plain terms, we have to re-transfer the prestige and the prerogatives of sovereignty from the fifty or sixty fragments of contemporary society to the whole of contemporary society—from the local national states by which sovereignty has been usurped, with disastrous consequences, for half a millennium, to some institution embodying our society as a whole.

In the world as it is today, this institution can hardly be a universal Church. It is more likely to be something like a League of Nations. I will not prophesy. I will merely repeat that we are at present working, discreetly but with all our might, to wrest this mysterious political force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local national states of our world. And all the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands…”

(“The Trend of International Affairs Since the War,” International Affairs, November 1931, p. 809; emphases mine- Kevin Cole).

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British Historian Arnold J. Toynbee describes HOW and WHY American Sovereignty Should Be Ended… We Happen to Disagree

A few words from Arnold J. Toynbee in the RIIA Journal (Click the Links to check your premises in the WebBrain):

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