“Reade was an emancipating writer because he seemed to speak as man to man to resolve history into an intelligible pattern in which there was no need for miracles. Even if he was wrong, he was grown-up.”

George Orwell Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters (1970) vol. 4, p. 147.
Criticism of The Martyrdom of Man

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