Seventy Years Among Savages

"Seventy Years Among Savages" by Henry S. Salt is a collection of essays about animal welfare. Some notable titles include The argument – Where ignorance was bliss – Literæ inhumaniores – The discovery – Cannibal's conscience – Glimpses of civilization – The poet-pioneer – Voices crying in the wilderness – A league of humaneness – Twentieth-century tortures – Hunnish sports and fashions – etc. Excerpt: «The seventy years spent by me among savages form the subject of this story, but not, be it noted, seventy years of consciousness that my life was so cast, for during the first part of my residence in the... Далее