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See also:ARNOLD See also:TOYNBEE (1852-1883)
, See also:English social reformer and economist, second son of See also:Joseph See also:Toynbee (1815- 1866),
From the
Pampean
Formation of
See also:Argentina
.
a distinguished surgeon, was See also:born in See also:London on the 23rd' of See also:August 1852
.
He had originally intended to enter the See also:army, but See also:ill See also:health and a growing love of books changed his plans, and he settled down to read for the See also:bar
.
Here again the same causes produced a See also:change of purpose, and he entered as a student at See also:Pembroke See also:College, See also:Oxford
.
Finding himself by no means at ease in that college he migrated after two years to Balliol College
.
Continued ill health prevented his See also:reading for honours, but he made so deep an impression on the authorities of his college that on taking his degree he was appointed lecturer and See also:tutor to students preparing for the See also:Indian See also:civil service
.
He devoted himself to the study of See also:economics and economic See also:history
.
He was active also as a See also:practical social reformer, taking See also:part in much public See also:work and delivering lectures in the large See also:industrial centres on economic problems
.
He overtaxed his strength, and after lecturing in London in See also:January 1883 he had a See also:complete break-down, and died of inflammation of the See also:brain at See also:Wimbledon on the 9th of See also:
This See also:volume deserves See also:attention both for its See also:intrinsic merit and as indicating the first See also:drift of a changing method in the treatment of economic problems
.
He, however, fluctuated considerably in his See also:opinion of the Ricardian See also:political See also:economy, in one See also:place declaring it to be a detected " intellectual imposture," whilst elsewhere, apparently under the influence of See also:Bagehot, he speaks of it as having been in See also:recent times " only corrected, re-stated, and put into the proper relation to the See also:science of See also:life," meaning apparently, by this last, See also:general See also:sociology
.
He saw that the See also:great help in the future for the science of economics must come from the See also:historical method, to which in his own researches he gave preponderant See also:weight
.
Toynbee's See also:interest in the poor and his anxiety to be personally acquainted with them led to his See also:close association with the See also:district of See also:
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