The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
About William Winwood Reade
William Winwood Readewas a British historian, explorer, novelist and philosopher. His two best-known books, the universal history The Martyrdom of Manand the novel The Outcast (1875), were included in the Thinker’s Library.
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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.
British historian
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
British historian
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.
British historian