THE MARTYRDOM OF MAN 2

The Martyrdom of Man was a history of the world from an entirely new viewpoint, and was a prominent freethinking text of the late Nineteenth century. It is not an exaggeration to say that it provided a view of History as revolutionary as Darwin's view of Science - an entirely new and non-religious way of looking at the subject. It was very popular and influential on publication in the 1870's and long after - Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells and George Orwell were all heavily influenced.
Even Sherlock Holmes said "Let me recommend this book, -- one of the most remarkable ever penned. It is Winwood Reade's 'Martyrdom of Man.'"
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..." And now, passing to the general questions discussed in this chapter, it will be observed  that WAR is the chief agent of civilization in the period which I have attemped to portray. It was war which drove  the Egyptians into  those frightful desert in the midst of which  their  Happy Valley was discovered. It was which, under the Persian, opened lands which had been either closed against foreigners or jealously held ajar.It was war which colonized Syria and Asia Minor whit Greek ideas, and which planted in Alexandria the exparimental philosophy which will win for us in time the dominion of the earth. It was war which unite the Greek and Latin worlds into asplendid harmony of empire. And when that ancient world had been overcome by langour , and had falle into Oriental sleep; when nothing was thaught inthe schools which had not been tought a hundred year years before; when the rapacity of the tyrants had estiquished the ambition of the rich and the industry of the poor; when the Chirch also had become inert, and rosed itself only to be cruel-then again come War across the Rhine and the Danube and the Alps,and laid the fundations of European life among the ruins of the Latin world.  In the same manner Asia avoke as if my magic, and from Europe the lands which she had lost. But this latter conquest, thought effected by means of war, was preserved by means of Religion, an element of history which must be analyzed with scientific care. In the next chapter I shall explain the origin of religious sentiment and theory in savage life. I shall sketch the early career of the  three great Shemitic creeds, and the characters of three men - Moses, Jesus and Mahomet - who, whatever may have beentheir foults, are entitlet to the eternal gratitude of the human race. Then, resuming the history of Africa, I shall follow the course os Islam over the Great Desert into the Soudan, and shall describe its progress in the country by means of the sword and of the school, something of which I have seen and studied under both form."
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By no coincidence, this great work of the mankind history, could never yet have been replacing the colosal brainwashing on, in novadays school's education.

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