“One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man…It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.”

— William Winwood Reade

H. G. Wells The Outline of History (1920) p. vii.
Criticism of The Martyrdom of Man

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British historian 1838–1875

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