carpenter

Edward Carpenter (August 29, 1844 – June 28, 1929) was a British utopian socialist, poet, philosopher, and anthology editor. He was an early promoter of the gay rights movement and prison reform, advocated vegetarianism, and opposed animal vivisection. As a philosopher, Carpenter's most famous work is Civilization: Its Causes and Solutions. In this work, he described civilization as a form of disease experienced by human societies. He was an early advocate of the sexual revolution, had a profound influence on both David Herbert Lawrence and Sri Aurobindo, and inspired E. M. Forster's novel Maurice's Lover.