Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
William Winwood Reade
Born: December 26, 1838
Died: April 24, 1875 (aged 36)
Bio: William Winwood Reade was a British historian, explorer, and philosopher. His two best-known books, The Martyrdom of Man and The Outcast, were included in the Thinker's Library.
Known for:
- The Martyrdom of Man
- Veil of Isis or Mysteries of the Druids (1861)
- Liberty Hall, Oxon (1860)
- The Story of the Ashantee Campaign (1874)