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 More Quotes by William Winwood Reade More Quotes From 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 metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. William Winwood Reade buddhism beautiful philosophy Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. William Winwood Reade monkeys expansion genius Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all. William Winwood Reade offspring savages doubt There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes. William Winwood Reade angel believe father In Europe itself it is not probable that war will ever absolutely cease until science discovers some destroying force so simple in its administration, so horrible in its effects, that all art, all gallantry, will be at an end, and battles will be massacres which the feelings of mankind will be unable to endure. William Winwood Reade simple war art
