Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
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Arnold J. Toynbee was a 19th-century British historian. Arnold Joseph Toynbee was an English historian, a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King's College London. From 1918 to 1950, Toynbee was considered a leading specialist on international affairs; from 1929 to 1956 he was the Director of Studies at Chatham House, in which position he also produced 34 volumes of the Survey of International Affairs, a "bible" for international specialists in Britain. Read more on Wikipedia →