In any whole of parts a loss of harmony between the parts is paid for by the whole in a corresponding loss of self-determination... and this conclusion is what we should expect, since it is the inverse of the conclusion, which we have reached earlier...that a progress towards self-determination is the criterion of growth."
Toynbee, *A Study of History*, IV.C.III.(a).p.132-133, "The Mechanicalness of Mimesis"
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