Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all. - William Winwood Reade

What a state of society is this in which free-thinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?

All men indeed cannot be poets, inventors or philanthropists; but all men can join in that gigantic and godlike work, the progress of creation. Whoever improves his own nature improves the universe of which he is a part.

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.