Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 7, July 13th, 1949.
Sunset in the West
Sunset in the West
The final charge is that of falsely accusing Toynbee of pessimism. The difference between his prophecy of doom for "western civilisation" and Marx's for "capitalism." is that capitalism is a much smaller thing in point of time, and is destined to give birth to something bigger. Toynbee gives us no hope that anything at all is necessarily likely to emerge from the ruin of the vast thing called "western civilisation." In fact, he is reported to have called on mankind to pray like mad that the day of judgment may be only put off. Cheerful?
—Partisan.