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William Winwood Reade Quotes Page 1 of 1William Winwood Reade 1838 - 1875 Nationality: Scottish Category: 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. | 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. | 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. |
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