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Age of Enlightenment (Great Ages of Man)
by Peter Gay
Great Ages of Man series from Time-Life Books, this volume featuring The Age of Enlightenment.
Arnold J. Toynbee Writing Styles in A Study of History
Style
Simile and Analogy
Toynbee frequently makes use of similes and analogies in which two apparently dissimilar things are compared. The purpose of these similes is to enable the reader to visualize the concept that is being presented and make it easier to grasp. One extended simile recurs at several points in the book, and that is Toynbee's comparison of civilizations to humans climbing a mountain. Primitive civilizations are like people lying asleep on a ledge with a precipice below and a precipice above. No further progress is possible for them. Arrested civilizations are like climbers who have reached a certain height but now find themselves blocked; they can go neither forward nor backward. Civilizations that are ready to grow, however, are like climbers who have just risen to their feet and are beginning to climb the face of the cliff. They cannot stop until they either fall back...
湯恩比 (Arnold Toynbee 1889-1975)讓我們借用阿諾德湯恩比著名的攀岩者形像來說,在啟蒙運動時代,西方文明的確開始不牢靠地向上摸索一個新的立足點,而今天它仍在那裡。
--- Peter Gay《啟蒙時代》前言 (克蘭 布林頓),1966,
[Arnold J. Toynbee, G. R. Urban著]
王少如,沈晓红譯
湯恩比 (Toynbee, Arnold Joseph, 1889-1975)
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“All that is transitory is but a metaphor.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
的末篇讀它引哥德此句
然後她說他的一生的"隱喻"