Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Preserved Smith
American Historian of the Protestant Reformation
"To indoctrinate the child with the prevailing world-view of the society and class in which he has been born, to enforce conformity in later life by the thunders of the priest and by the sword of the magistrate has been “the wisdom of our ancestor” at every stage in their progress from savagery to civilization."
"No other factor in history, not even religion, has produced so many wars as has the clash of national egotisms sanctified by the name of patriotism."