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The Professor and the Fossil, by Maurice Samuel. 277 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $4.00

Arnold Toynbee has only himself to blame if his historical work is criticized polemically from a point of view more concerned with contemporary realties than with historical analysis. Not content with making himself a preacher of highly doubtful doctrines about current political matters, he has allowed his preoccupation with these matters to distort the very structure and sweep of his historical life-work, A Study of History.

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Frank S. Meyer

Frank S. Meyer was a senior editor of National Review.

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The Professor and the Fossil, by Maurice Samuel. 277 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $4.00

Arnold Toynbee has only himself to blame if his historical work is criticized polemically from a point of view more concerned with contemporary realties than with historical analysis. Not content with making himself a preacher of highly doubtful doctrines about current political matters, he has allowed his preoccupation with these matters to distort the very structure and sweep of his historical life-work, A Study of History.