Henry Stephens Salt (September 20, 1851 - April 19, 1939) on State and Domination(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 #27 on Political Struggle Quotes >> State and Domination
“We are living in an age which still permits great wealth and abject poverty to exist side by side; we still hang and flog; we still wage wars, and honor in every way the trade of soldiering; we still ill-treat, hunt, cage, eat, and even vivisect, sentient beings closely akin to ourselves; and we still maintain a religion which does not attempt to teach us how savage these practices are. In spite of scientific discoveries and our boast of high "civilization," many of our doings deserve rather to be classed with the primeval -- the prehistoric.”
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, Pages 200-201.
"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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