Henry Stephens Salt (September 20, 1851 - April 19, 1939) on Individual and Morality(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.)
Quote #13 on Political Struggle Quotes >> Individual and Morality
“The true individualism, as I understand it, consists not in freedom to cheat one's neighbor, but in the freedom to develop one's own intellect. At present our so-called "freedom" is mostly of the former kind.”
Source: "Savour of Salt, The: A Henry Salt Anthology," by Henry Salt, edited by George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick, Centaur Press, 1989. Part 4: Salt as Correspondent, Chapter 23: Dr. Samuel Arthur Jones, Page 184.
"Savour of Salt, The: A Henry Salt Anthology," by Henry Salt, edited by George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick, Centaur Press, 1989.
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