Henry Stephens Salt (September 20, 1851 - April 19, 1939) on Nature and Humanity(published by RevoltSource) |
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English Writer, Vegetarian, Anti-war Advocate, Socialist, Anti-child Abuse, and Campaigner for Social Reform in the Fields of Prisons, Schools, Economic Institutions, and the Treatment of Animals
: An English writer and campaigner for social reform in the fields of prisons, schools, economic institutions, and the treatment of animals. He was a noted ethical vegetarian, anti-vivisectionist, socialist, and pacifist, and was well known as a literary critic, biographer, classical scholar and naturalist. It was Salt who first introduced Mohandas Gandhi to the influential works of Henry David Thoreau, and influenced Gandhi's study of vegetarianism. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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“...it is wholly impossible, in the face of modern knowledge and evolutional science, to maintain the old "anthropocentric" idea which regarded man as the sum and center of the universe, a monarch for whose special benefit all else was created...”
Source: "The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues," by Henry Stephens Salt, Second Edition, Revised, London, George Bell and Sons, York House, Portugal Street, 1906. Chapter 18: Bible and Beef, Page 90.
"The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues," by Henry Stephens Salt, Second Edition, Revised, London, George Bell and Sons, York House, Portugal Street, 1906.
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