Henry Stephens Salt (September 20, 1851 - April 19, 1939) on Peace and Society(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 #8 on Political Struggle Quotes >> Peace and Society
“Wars will cease only when two conditions have been fulfilled -- the first, that men shall have a genuine desire for peace; the second, that their feelings shall have been humanized in regard not to fighting only, but to the other conditions of life.”
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, Page 198.
"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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