“The Comtists are right when they say that men's moral ideas are not fixed. The attitude of public opinion towards slavery was completely changed in twenty or thirty years. Still I am obliged to believe that such a moral revolution as the Comtists hope for is not possible within a reasonable space of time.”

— Arnold Toynbee

Source: Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England (1884), p. 150

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British economic historian 1852–1883

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