Cannibal Quote by William Winwood Reade

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

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

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

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

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

— William Winwood Reade

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

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

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

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

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

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

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