Henry Stephens Salt (September 20, 1851 - April 19, 1939) on Nature and Humanity

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(1851 - 1939)

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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Quote #8 on Ecological Struggle Quotes >> Nature and Humanity

“...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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