Great Throughts Treasury

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

Robert William Mackenna

Author of book "The Adventure of Life"

"Practically in all the progress that man has made is due to the fact that he is mortal… If there were no death, life would become a thing stagnant, monotonous, and unspeakably burdensome."