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William Winwood Reade (1838 - 1875) was a British historian, explorer, and philosopher.His most famous work, the Martyrdom of Man (1872)—whose summary running head reads From Nebula to Nation—is a secular, universal history of the Western world. Structurally, it is divided into four chapters of approximately 150 pages each: the first chapter, War, discusses the imprisonment of men's bodies, the second, Religion, that of their minds, the third, Liberty, is the closest thing to a conventional European political and intellectual history, and the fourth, Intellect, which discusses the cosmogony characteristic of a universal historyCecil Rhodes, an English-born South African politician and businessman, said that the book made me what I am. Other admirers of The Martyrdom of Man included H. G. Wells, Winston Churchill, Harry Johnston, George Orwell, Susan Isaacs, A. A. Milne and his son Christopher Robin, and Michael Foot. A laudatory reference is made to the book by Sherlock Holmes in the Sign of the Four. - Summary by Wikipedia