United Kingdom, Historian December 26, 1838 – 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.
Also known as Explorer, Philosopher
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.
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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