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

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

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysic…

- William Winwood Reade

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

- William Winwood Reade

Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.

- 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

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

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