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Quotes from The Trend of International Affairs Since the War — Arnold J. Toynbee

1889–1975 England

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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.

The Trend of International Affairs Since the War (1931)

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