 | Henry Stephens Salt (September 20, 1851 - April 19, 1939) on Learning and Philosophy(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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Quote #10 on Education Struggle Quotes >> Learning and Philosophy
“It is to the poets, then, not to the dogmatists, that we must look for solace; for, where knowledge is still unattainable, an aspiration is wiser than an assertion...”
Source: "Seventy Years Among Savages," by Henry Stephens Salt, published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1921. Chapter 16: Poetry of Death and Love, Page 237.
"Seventy Years Among Savages," by Henry Stephens Salt, published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1921.
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