A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

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.