Great Throughts Treasury

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

Jacques Rivière

French Man of Letters, Edited La Nouvelle Revue Française

"What is the dogma of original sin but a means of making the things of the flesh enter a spiritual system?"

"There is no absolute peril except for him who abandons himself; There is no complete death except for him who aquires a taste of dying."