Henry Stephens Salt was an English writer and campaigner for social reform and the rights of animals. He was an ethical vegetarian, socialist, and pacifist, and was well known as a literary critic, biographer, and naturalist. It was Salt who influenced Mahatma Gandhi’s study of vegetarianism.
In 1892, Salt wrote a seminal, scholarly book called Animals’ Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress. Peter Singer describes this book as the best of the 18th and 19th century works on the subject.
Salt’s wise words include: “The emancipation of men from cruelty and injustice will bring with it, in due course, the emancipation of animals also, the two reforms are inseparable, and neither can be fully realised alone.”
By Henry Salt:
