Word: holism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Elizabethan vim and versatility, Smuts had lived his own "idea of the whole" which he expounded in his book, Holism and Evolution in 1926. He believed that everywhere in the universe-among electrons and protons, plants and animals, minds and personalities, empires and world orders-the forces of cooperation and fusion, i.e., "holism,"*are at work. But at Smuts's life's end, not even his own beloved country was whole...