A Voice from the Grave
A statement of faith written shortly before his death by Mr. Henry S. Salt, founder of the Humanitarian League and writer on philosophical subjects, was read by a friend when Mr. Salt’s body was cremated at Brighton today. He died at the age of eighty-seven.
“Names are very liable to be misunderstood,” Mr. Salt had written. “When I say that I shall die as I have lived, a Rationalist, a Socialist, a Pacifist, and a Humanitarian. I must make my meaning clear.
“I wholly disbelieve in the present established religion, but I have a very firm religious faith of my own—creed of kinship, I call it—a belief that in years yet to come there will be a recognition of the brotherhood between man and man, between nation and nation, and between human and sub-human, which will transform the state of semi-savagery as we have it into one of civilisation.”
The mourners included Lord Olivier.