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.
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 negotiatio… - 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 and foreign negotiatio…
- William Winwood Reade
In Europe itself it is not probable that war will ever absolutely cease until science discovers some destroying force so simple in its administration… - William Winwood Reade
In Europe itself it is not probable that war will ever absolutely cease until science discovers some destroying force so simple in its administration…
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 necess… - 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, as a species the offspring of necess…
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
What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?
Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. - William Winwood Reade
Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
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. - William Winwood Reade
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.
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 no… - 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 private citizens did no…
Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals. - William Winwood Reade
Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.
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
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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