According to Harry Oldmeadow , Whitall Perry was “the most authoritative traditionalist of American background.” World Wisdom’s list of Related Readings on our web site is drawn from the acknowledgements section in Whitall Perry’s A Treasury Of Traditional Wisdom (George Allen and Unwin 1971), a magisterial compendium of spiritual doctrine spanning four ages and hemispheres. He also contributed to the book, Ye Shall Know the Truth .
Perry was born near Boston in 1920. His early intellectual interests included Platonism and Vedanta and he traveled extensively in the Middle and Far East both before and after World War II with a brief interlude of study at Harvard University. He was one of several Harvard students who came under Coomaraswamy’s influence in the 1940s.
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