A Critique of Professor Arnold G. Toynbee’s Understanding — Page 11
11 human mind, have, more than an individual effort, brought about the great steps in the world’s history, cannot well deny, that even if this step were to come, without Muhammad, it would have been indefinitely delayed. ” 9. J. H. DENISON J. H. Denison writes in his book, Emotions as the Basis of Civilization, pp. 265 - 9: “In the fifth and sixth centuries, the civilized world stood on the verge of chaos. The old emotional cultures that had made civilization possible, since they had given to man a sense of unity and of reverence for their rulers, had broken down, and nothing had been found adequate to take their place. It seemed then that the great civilization which had taken four thousand years to construct was on the verge of disintegration, and that mankind was likely to return to that condition of barbarism where every tribe and sect was against the next, and law a nd order were unknown. The new sanctions created by Christianity were creating divisions and destruction instead of unity and order … Civilization like a gigantic tree whose foliage had overreached the world stood tottering rotted to the core. Was there any emotional culture that could be brought in to gather mankind once mare to unity and to save civilization? It was among the Arabs that the man was