From: Hermit (virus@hermit.net)
Date: Thu Sep 25 2003 - 14:25:13 MDT
As Kharin observes, Scruton is an apologist, not an historian. Again, I recommend Arnold Toynbee's "A Study of History" et al to Jonathan Davis' attention, with a reminder, "The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue..." [Arnold J. Toynbee, Civilization on Trial, New York, ISBN: 1112761721, p. 205]
The US is currently learning what the "happy Empire builders" once learned and have now apparently forgotten, that "Sword-blades are foundations that never settle" [Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History, OUP, 1939, vol. 6 ,p. 196.]
Hermit
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