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In his massive Study of History, metahistorian Arnold Toynbee says that the careers of extraordinary individuals are normally marked by phases of “withdrawal and return.” He added that “such a withdrawal may be a voluntary action,” or it may be “forced by circumstances beyond their control.” Regardless, they go back to the environment out of which they came, ready for renewed greatness.1
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I may at times have neglected these “anonymous forces,” but history is a drama of individuals, too, creatures of their times who shape those times.
—Fritz Stern
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Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History. Abridgements of vols. I—VI by D.C. Somervell (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1947), 217.
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Derfler, L. (2012). Conclusion. In: Political Resurrection in the Twentieth Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137027863_13
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