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==== Arnold J. Toynbee's "The Idea" ==== According to letters written by the tiler, allegedly uncovered by Toynbee tile researchers in Philadelphia in 2006,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://resurrectdead.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=92 |title=Resurrect Dead Message Board – Toynbees ideas – here they are, folks! |publisher=Resurrectdead.proboards.com |access-date=2010-10-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826024214/http://resurrectdead.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general |archive-date=August 26, 2011 }}</ref>{{unreliable-source-inline|date=March 2015}} "Toynbee's idea" stems from a passage in Arnold Toynbee's book ''Experiences'': {{quote|Human nature presents human minds with a puzzle which they have not yet solved and may never succeed in solving, for all that we can tell. The dichotomy of a human being into 'soul' and 'body' is not a datum of experience. No one has ever been, or ever met, a living human soul without a body... Someone who accepts—as I myself do, taking it on trust—the present-day scientific account of the Universe may find it impossible to believe that a living creature, once dead, can come to life again; but, if he did entertain this belief, he would be thinking more 'scientifically' if he thought in the Christian terms of a psychosomatic resurrection than if he thought in the shamanistic terms of a disembodied spirit.<ref>{{cite book|first=Arnold|last=Toynbee|title=Experiences|pages=[https://archive.org/details/experiences0000toyn/page/140 140–1]|url=https://archive.org/details/experiences0000toyn/|chapter=Religion: What I Believe and What I Disbelieve|year=1969|publisher=Oxford University Press|lccn=74-75754}}</ref>}}
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