William Winwood Reade

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William Winwood Reade


Born
December 26, 1838

Died
April 24, 1875


William Winwood Reade (26 December 1838 – 24 April 1875) was a British historian, explorer, and philosopher. His two best-known books, The Martyrdom of Man (1872) and The Outcast (1875), were included in the Thinker's Library.

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The Martyrdom of Man

4.05 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1872 — 151 editions
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The Veil of Isis, or Myster...

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The Outcast

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Savage Africa

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Nesting Birds, Eggs and Fle...

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The African Sketch-Book, Vo...

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The African Sketch-book: Wi...

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“It is the first and indispensable condition of human progress that a people shall be married to a single land;”
William Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man [Illustrated]

“It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.”
William Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man

“Then, if the Earth-wife be fruitful, she will bear them children by hundreds and by thousands; and then calamity will come and teach them by torture to invent.”
William Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man [Illustrated]

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