In volume III of Arnold J. Toynbee’s great “Study of History” he…comes to the conclusion that real growth of a civilization does not consist of increasing command over the physical environment, nor of increasing command over the human environment (i.e., over other nations or civilizations), but that it lies in what he calls “etherealization”; a development of intangible relationships. He points out that this process involves both a simplification of the apparatus of life and also a transfer of interest and energy from material things to a higher sphere. Richard B. Gregg View book in its entirety at soilandhealth.org.
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