SALMEEON Y ALONSO
SALVERTE
SALMERON Y ALONSO, Professor
Nicolas, Spanish statesman. B. Apr. 10,
1838. Ed. Granada University. At an early
age Salmeron was appointed professor of
philosophy at Madrid University, and later
at the San Isidore Institute. He joined the
republicans in early manhood, and wrote
in their organ, La Discusion (1860-62).
In 1865 he was elected a member of the
Madrid democratic-republican committee,
and three years later he was condemned to
five months in prison for political con
spiracy. He was a member of the Pro
visional Government at the Revolution,
and was elected to the Cortes. In 1873
he became Minister of Justice and Presi
dent of the Cortes, and later in the same
year he was elected President of the
Republic. There was a good deal of insur
rection, and Salmeron, who objected to
capital punishment, was compelled to
resign. In 1874, when the Bourbons
were restored, the clericals got him deprived
of his chair ; and in 1876 he was forced to
fly to Paris, where he taught in the Univer
sity. He returned to Madrid, and recovered
his chair, in 1881. In 1886 he was elected
republican member for Madrid. Salmeron
was a thorough Rationalist all his life.
D. Sep. 21, 1908.
SALT, Henry Stephens, writer. B. (India) 1851. Ed. Eton and Cambridge (King s College). He was Browne s Medal list for Greek epigrams and first-class in the classical tripos. From 1875 to 1884 Mr. Salt was an assistant master at Eton, but he developed advanced ideas and abandoned his position. He has since the latter date been one of the most prominent humanitarian workers in England. From 1891 to 1914 he was Honorary Secretary of the Humanitarian League. He has written numerous w y orks, including P. B. Sh-elley (1888), Life of James Thomson (1889), Life of H. D. ThoreaiL (1890), and Richard Jefferies (1894). He is a member of the Rationalist Press Association ; and his sympathies are plainly expressed in his various biographies of famous Rationalists. 703
S ALTER, William Mackintire, A.M.,
B.D., American lecturer and writer. B.
Jan. 30, 1853. Ed. Yale, Harvard, Gottin-
gen, and Columbia Universities. Mr.
Salter was trained in theology at Harvard
Divinity School (1871-73), and took a
theological degree there in 1876. But he
became an Agnostic, and transferred his
services to the Ethical Movement. From
1883 to 1892 he was lecturer to the
Chicago Society for Ethical Culture. From
1892 to 1897 he served the Philadelphia
Society in the same capacity, and he then
returned to the Chicago Society for ten
years. From 1909 to 1913 he was special
lecturer on philosophy at the Chicago
University. He is a member of the
American Philosophical Association. He
has written a number of Ethical-Rationalist
works in English and German, notably
Ethical Religion (1889) and First Steps in
Philosophy (1892).
SALTERS, Edgar Evertson, American
writer. B. June 8, 1858. Ed. St. Paul s School, Concord, and Paris and Columbia Universities. In 1884 he published Balzac and The Philosophy of Disenchantment (a study of the pessimistic views of Hartmann and Schopenhauer). His Anatomy of Negation (1885) was greatly appreciated by Rationalists. He has since written a number of distinguished literary works and novels.
SALYERTE, Anne Joseph Eusebe Baconniere de, French writer. B. July 18, 1771. Ed. by the Oratorians of Juilly. He became a lawyer, and was Royal Advocate from 1789 to 1792. He then entered the Civil Service of the Revolution, and was also professor of algebra at the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees. During the Revolution he published a Rationalistic tragedy based on the death of Christ, an Essai sur ce qu on doit croire (1793), and an Eloge de Diderot (1801). When Napo leon seized power he retired to private life and study, and wrote a number of learned works. At the return of the Bourbons 704
