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330 March Cash Account Thursday-3 March she was very beautiful in long black velvet with a floor length stole of deepest turquoise blue green-which was wonderful against her blondeness. He was very charming, as usual. Has most unusual features. The unusual line of his nose - his ears, without the line of the outer shell - his heavy protruding eyebrows, meeting together. I can't think of another man who would not cut them. It was a surprise to me, to see him sit down at the piano after dinner & play, of all things all the old American jazz tunes. One could see he loves to sing & play. Helen Pettit then sat down at the piano. She has played every since her 6th year- & has ease & poise. [[strikethrough]] at [[strikethrough]] Col. Pettit beamed & said- "Didn't I tell you she is wonderful?" He reminded me again -'you know were married over 35 yrs.- she is still wonderful & a mystery to me." 331 Arnold J. Toynbee Friday, March 4 March Cash Account A.M. - Some ideas of Toynbee. Three forces, militating against freedom - in favor of totalitarianism 1) Pressure of population 2) Dangerousness of weapons today 3) Demand for social justice. Two problems - if the world keeps the peace - we will have to limit the world's population. With preventive medicine, the human race may multiply to starvation point. Freedom must be preserved in religion - which is its spiritual citadel. On True Religion Right Belief and right feeling taking effect in right action. Without right action, right feeling & right belief have no virtue in them. Right belief is a) the recognition that the human being controls & understands only a tiny fraction of the universal B.) That their is a presence in the universal which is spiritually greater than we are & which is Absolute Reality.