The Martyrdom of Man.
Reade ([William] Winwood)
Publication details: Trübner,1872,
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One of the late nineteenth-century's most popular and widely read books. Reade was an explorer and a professed 'disciple' of Darwin, who acknowledges in his Preface that Descent of Man had left him little to say 'respecting the birth and infancy of the faculties and affections' (p. iv). He does nevertheless 'venture to dissent' from his progenitor on certain minor points, regarding which he considers it likely that 'Mr Darwin will disapprove' (p. v), and offers an extensive list of his 'chief guides' in various fields that inform this universal history.