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.)

"Savour of Salt, The: A Henry Salt Anthology," by Henry Salt, edited by George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick, Centaur Press, 1989.