 | Henry Stephens Salt (September 20, 1851 - April 19, 1939) on State and Civilization(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 #5 on Political Struggle Quotes >> State and Civilization
“Are we, then, a civilized people? Has the Man of today, still living by bloodshed, still striving to grow rich at the expense of his neighbor, still using torture in punishment, still seeking sport in destruction, still waging fratricidal wars, and, while making a hell on earth, claiming for himself an eternal heaven hereafter—has this selfish, predatory being arrived at a state of “civilization”?”
Source: "Seventy Years Among Savages," by Henry Stephens Salt, published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1921. Chapter 17: The Talisman, Page 239.
"Seventy Years Among Savages," by Henry Stephens Salt, published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1921.
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