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. — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
Reade was an emancipating writer because he seemed to speak as man to man to resolve history into an intelligible pattern in which there… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin? — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions it would… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile. — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
Christians believe themselves to be the aristocracy of heaven upon earth, they are admitted to the spiritual court, while millions of men in foreign… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent,… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
