Great Throughts Treasury

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

José Enrique Rodó, fully José Enrique Rodó Piñeyro

Uruguayan Literary Critic, Philosopher and Essayist

"Every society to which you remain bound robs you of a part of your essence, and replaces it with a speck of the gigantic personality which is its own."