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William Winwood Reade

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If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.


— William Winwood Reade


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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


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Though Reade traveled over some unexplored territory his findings excited little interest among geographers due mostly to his failure to take accurate measurements of his journey as his sextant and other instruments had been left behind at Port Loko. Cecil Rhodes an English-born South African politician and businessman said that the book "made me what I am". Reception and influence
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His two best-known books The Martyrdom of Man (1872) and The Outcast (1875) were included in the Thinker's Library. William Winwood Reade (1838 - 1875) was a British historian explorer and philosopher.

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