The Martyrdom of Man Reade Winwood
The Martyrdom of Man Reade Winwood William Winwood Reade (1838 - 1875) was a British historian, explorer, and philosopher. According to one historian, the book became a kind of "substitute bible for…
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The Martyrdom of Man Reade Winwood
William Winwood Reade (1838 - 1875) was a British historian, explorer, and philosopher. According to one historian, the book became a kind of "substitute bible for secularists". His major work, The Martyrdom of Man (1872), is a secular history of the Western world.
It is not an exaggeration to say that it provided a view of History as revolutionary as Darwin's view of Science - an entirely new and non-religious way of looking at the subject. In it, Reade attempts to trace the development of Western civilization in terms analogous to those used in the natural sciences.The Martyrdom of Man was a history of the world from an entirely new viewpoint, and was a prominent freethinking text of the late Nineteenth century. It was very popular and influential on publication in the 1870's and long after - Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G.
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