ROMANCE OF SALT.
BLOODSTAINED HISTORY.
RULES LIFE—AND DEATH. MAN'S NEED AND GREED. Of life—and death. For without salt humanity may not live; with too much, it dies. There are few people who have not heard something of the colourful, crimeladen histories of certain famous jewels. Yet never a crime has been committed for the sake of a jewel, but a worse crime has been committed for the sake of salt.
Torture, bloodshed, hate. Medieval justice and modern science. Greed of taste, greed of money, greed of power. Emblem of purity —and potent cause of evil.
All thase and more help to make the terrible story of salt.
To tell the whole history of salt would occupy a large book. Even then much would have to be left out owing to its dreadful nature. The fact that Humans could not live without salt gave rise to the cruel choice offered T>y medieval European justice to certain men condemned to die.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 170, 20 July 1935, Page 8 (Supplement)
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