It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be… - William Winwood Reade

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.

Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.

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.