The Martyrdom of Man - William Winwood Reade
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The Martyrdom of Man

Updated: 7 Sep 2020
The Martyrdom of Man (1872) is a secular, "universal" history of the Western world. Structurally, it is divided into four "chapters": the first chapter, "War", discusses the imprisonment of men's bodies, the second, "Religion", that of their minds, the third, "Liberty", is the closest thing to a conventional European political and intellectual history, and the fourth, "Intellect", which discusses the cosmogony characteristic of a "universal history".
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Elsewhere he urges Watson to read Winwood Reade’s The Martyrdom of Man, a sort of outline of history from a secular point of view.
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