 | Henry Stephens Salt (September 20, 1851 - April 19, 1939) on Religious Powers and Cruelty(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 #11 on Religious Struggle Quotes >> Religious Powers and Cruelty
“Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture of the damned underlies much of the barbarity with which man has treated man; and the deep division imagined by the Church between the human being, with his immortal soul, and the soulless “beasts,” has been responsible for an incalculable sum of cruelty.”
Source: "Seventy Years Among Savages," by Henry Stephens Salt, published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1921. Chapter 14: The Forlorn Hope, Page 213.
"Seventy Years Among Savages," by Henry Stephens Salt, published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1921.
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