Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Howard Mumford Jones
American Writer, Literary Critic, and Professor of English at Harvard University, Book Editor for The Boston Evening Transcript
"To find out what we presently are and where we are going, we must know what we have been and what others have done; and this, because the humanities are at once the creation and the interpreters of the past, is the great purpose of humanistic scholarship."
"Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it."
"Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to."
"“I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us."
"If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed"