Henry Salt was 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.His first book, "A ...

The immediate question that claims our attention is this-if men have rights, have animals their rights also? From the earliest times there have been thinkers who, directly or indirectly, answered this question with an affirmative. The Buddhist and Pythagorean canons, dominated perhaps by the creed of reincarnation, included the maxim "not to kill or injure any innocent animal." The humanitarian philosophers of the Roman empire, among whom Seneca, Plutarch, and Porphyry were the most conspi...

With clear logic and entertaining dialogues, the author presents many reasons for a vegetarian rather than a “flesh-eating” diet, and his arguments for not eating meat are as compelling today as when they were written.

With clear logic and entertaining dialogues, the author presents many reasons for a vegetarian rather than a “flesh-eating” diet, and his arguments for not eating meat are as compelling today as when they were written.Henry Stephens Salt (20 September 1851 – 19 April 1939) was 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...

On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills is a reflective record of mountain "pilgrimages" to Snowdon and Scafell, shaped as much by ethical and literary meditation as by topographical description. Salt writes in the lineage of Romantic and Victorian nature prose—Wordsworthian in sympathy, Thoreauvian in moral attentiveness—combining walking narrative, landscape appreciation, historical association, and quiet polemic against vulgar tourism. The book treats mountains not as sporting trophies, but as p...

Killing for Sport is a fierce and witty anti-blood-sport manifesto that attacks hunting, baiting, and the culture of organized cruelty as relics of a less civilized age. Framed by Henry S. Salt and opened by Bernard Shaw's sharp, morally teasing preface, the book refuses easy certainties: sportsmen are not simply monsters, and humanitarians are not automatically virtuous. Instead, it probes the contradictions in human sympathy, exposing the fascination with violence, the thrill of killing ...

"The Call of the Wildflower" by Henry S. Salt is a captivating exploration of nature and the human spirit. Through vivid descriptions and poetic language, Salt invites readers to immerse themselves in the beauty of wildflowers and the landscapes they inhabit. The book serves as a reminder of the delicate balance between humanity and nature, urging readers to appreciate the simple yet profound wonders of the natural world. Salt's passion for the environment shines through, making this work ...

It is the special purpose of this book to set forth in a clear and rational manner the logic of vegetarianism. To the ethical, the scientific, and the economic aspects of the system much attention has already been given by well-accredited writers, but there has not as yet been any organised effort to present the logical view—that is, the dialectical scope of the arguments, offensive and defensive, on which the case for vegetarianism is founded. I am aware that mere logic is not in itself a...

"...it is ourselves, our own vital instincts, that we wrong, when we trample on the rights of the fellow-beings, human or animal, over whom we chance to hold jurisdiction."Henry Stephens Salt was a noted ethical vegetarian, socialist, humanitarian and pacifist. It was Salt who influenced Gandhi's study of vegetarianism and non-violent protest. He is credited with being the first writer to argue explicitly in favour of animal rights. He was...

This book shakes the core of your beliefs on health and diet, but only if you're open-minded enough to comprehend it.Henry Stephens Salt, considered to be the "father of animal rights" and one of the first to write in favour of Vegetarianism, structures a sound argument against flesh-eating in this short and insightful read.He tackles the subject from economic, moral, and medical perspectives, claiming that we're driven to eat meat by forces of tradition and a lucrative ind...

THE “call of the wild,” where the love of flowers is concerned, has an attraction which is not the less powerful because it is difficult to explain. The charm of the garden may be strong, but it is not so strong as that which draws us to seek for wildflowers in their native haunts, whether of shore or water-meadow, field or wood, moorland or mountain. A garden is but a “zoo” (with the cruelty omitted); and just as the true natural history is that which sends us to study animals in the wild...

THE tales of travellers, from Herodotus to Marco Polo, and from Marco Polo to the modern “globe-trotter,” have in all ages been subject, justly or unjustly, to a good deal of suspicion, on the ground that those who go in quest of curious information among outlandish tribes are likely in the first instance to be imposed on themselves, and in the sequel to impose on their readers. No such doubt, however, can attach to the following record, for I am myself a native of the land whose customs a...