Top 20 William Winwood Reade Quotes
#1. A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.
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#2. Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation.
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#3. One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man ... It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.
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#4. What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?
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#5. Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.
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#6. A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
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#7. As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.
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#8. One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.
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#9. Nature does not contradict herself; the laws which govern the movements of society are as regular and unchangeable as those which govern the movements of the stars.
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#10. The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
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#12. We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.
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#13. If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.
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#14. It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.
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#15. Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.
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#16. It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.
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#18. Reade was an emancipating writer because he seemed to speak as man to man to resolve history into an intelligible pattern in which there was no need for miracles. Even if he was wrong, he was grown-up.
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#19. To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the intellect should be distrusted and that it should be subservient to faith, will inevitably fall.
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#20. As for the system of the Commune, which makes it impossible for a man to rise or fall, it is merely the old caste system revived; if it could be put into force, all industry would be disheartened, emulation would cease, and mankind would go to sleep.
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