Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Jan Christiaan Smuts
President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, South African And British Commonwealth Statesman, Military Leader and Philosopher, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, British Field Marshall
"In all the previous cases of wholes, we have nowhere been able to argue from the parts of the whole. Compared to its parts, the whole constituted by them is something quite different, something."
"The tendency in nature to form wholes that are greater than the sum of the parts through creative evolution."
"Action does not come to a stop in its structures, it remains in action. In other words, there is much more in bodies, thins and events than is contained in their structures or material forms. All things overflow their own structural limits. The inner Action transcends the outer structure, and there is thus a trend in things beyond themselves."