Great Throughts Treasury

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

Whitney J. Oates, fully Whitney Jennings Oates

American Classicist, Greek Scholar, Founder of the Humanities Council at Princeton University and Author

"The secular world, particularly in political forms, is finding that it cannot maintain its supremacy without some religious sanction, and consequently is busy manufacturing spurious religious faiths to bolster its own inadequacies."