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Holism and Progress

How the ideas of Jan Smuts made the modern world

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Robert Duigan
Jul 22, 2026
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I wrote a shorter and less-detailed version of this article a couple years ago. This time, I felt it would be good to make some more rigorous observations about his ideas and their institutional connections.

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