Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

George D. Herron

American Clergyman, Lecturer, Writer and Christian Socialist Activist

"If the instinctual and repressed kindness of mankind were suddenly let loose upon the earth, sooner than we think would we be members one of another, sitting around one family hearth-stone, and singing the song of the new humanity."

"The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised."