So far as the Syriac society was related to any older member of the species it was related to the Minoan, and this in the same degree as the Hellenic… - Arnold J. Toynbee

Societies, not states, are 'the social atoms' with which students of history have to deal.

So now we turn to India. This spiritual gift, that makes a man human, is still alive in Indian souls. Go on giving the world Indian examples of it. Nothing else can do so much to help mankind to save itself from destruction.

No collection of facts is ever complete, because the universe is without bounds. And no synthesis or interpretation is ever final, because there are always fresh facts to be found after the first collection has been provisionally arranged.