Henry Stephens Salt (September 20, 1851 - April 19, 1939) on Religious Belief 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.)
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“...the ancient Hebrew scriptures, whatever be their exact significance for Christian readers (a matter with which we are not here concerned), cannot be regarded as affording any clue to the solution of modern problems which have arisen centuries later.”
Source: "The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues," by Henry Stephens Salt, Second Edition, Revised, London, George Bell and Sons, York House, Portugal Street, 1906. Chapter 18: Bible and Beef, Page 90.
"The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues," by Henry Stephens Salt, Second Edition, Revised, London, George Bell and Sons, York House, Portugal Street, 1906.
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