THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1896.
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tion was to locate where I could hear b'ghe^t- ’••’pvctfCivu of mail [Hom o
ta M ethodist preacher h e r e m ade an a tle a s tjh u tc ir c u in s ta n c e a h a v e lo - sapiens], in the Iron Age. He cart
Paul was a 111« tame, a eta . man addre8g
p reaeh er is a eated me here for the present, w here be traced by bis tools and weapons
who worke at 11s tra e, or era , ram p an t “gold s ta n d a rd ” m au, and nearly all the wome n and children of rudely chipped flint, with the
bones of huge extinct m am m als in
for a living, and preached for ove d u rjl|g ,,)e cam pai
jug£
and weak m inded
old river beds and lim estone cav­
of God (the church) as preachers ha3 bee„ e8pecial|y 8avage
Qn the ))rlhodox churcbe8 T be
don t tin now .
the populists, hut his speech there intelligent and substantial m ale erns, K e n t’s cavern, near Torquay,
The
IheA houg it u sinner w 10 real s wag ag radical a populist free trade citizens do not.- B ut when I ask being especially notable.
the whale story for himsell is I,able effon (iudirectly of course) as the them to subscribe for freethought N eanderthal skull has attracted
to sm ile at so ame an aigunieu j most a rd e n t B ryanite could require, literatu re they decline to do so for m uch atten tio n from its singularly
aut to sti
la te a l n g e n n g 1 ea £p,e o[,j p op w ar-horses sat there various reasons; some are afraid brutal appearance, and appears to
th a t the good Saint who so despised
grinn£)d w bj,e th e c |erieal and ()thers have struggled so long he the nearest approach th a t has
women did hum bn.g the brethren ,Jro. wa8 pollnding away> ap p a r. w ith
effects of boom times th a t been found, as yet, to the m iss­
o t tat c urc .
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ently perfectly oblivious of w hat they think they can not spare the ing link between m an and ape.
th e cause of God, i. e .t le enure i, he wa8 doing
w hen ,)e fin nillue
Please send me the L ittle I he oldest type of m an known is
characterized by long and narrow’
more abounded through Ins skull-
t||e ho|lge g<)|dbugs ftnd
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duggery and lying, why should he c h w red
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and
Q u ar(er|y am) (>,d
- heads [dolichocephalic], prom inent
>e ju t ge a sinnei . - n
t
.e nal)g |,ty Pops. sm iled serenely, for tru th and justice while living eyebrows, m edium stature, and
great thickness of bones, and prom ­
BUcceet ei
>} lin g ( g u t ') » .) '1 he president of the college fol- and eternal sleep when dead
inence of ridges denoting great
not? I can m yself rememlair when lowed
H e spoke of the schools,,
A. G. D escent .
m uscular
stren g th .---- Agnostic’s
it was openly held th a t deception ¡tg in8titution alld ifg 8up ort au d
p g.
I was born in 1830, m ar- Prim er.
w as rig h t if done th ro u g h good ull| A„ ; , uii
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wife is is stm
still with
with
motives a n d g o o d , 1. e., C hristian
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a d v a n t a g e , c a m e of it; and th at -lloxi.T t i :
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I his president is, I am in- she expects to go to A b rah am ’s
If five hundred men, who lived
branch of C hristianity knowu as
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formed, a goldbug politician and bosom and I expect to be crema-
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to have seen witches, would you
t h a t it is right to lie for ihe good of . l
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g iihnc he
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believe in witches?
D escent of M an.
the church
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priesthood.
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not supposed to have any socialis-
And the ancients had St. P a u l , St. .• .
Is there as good proof th a t
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Man represents the highest de-
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tic tendencies, yet ho m ade a social-
witches exist as th a t Jesus was
Constantine, St. Esubius, etc, and •
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• istic speech, pure and s im p le . B u t velop m ient of anim al life, and is
resurrected?
modern C hristians have Spurgeon, ,
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cauaa his
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a u u ie n c e ap- mcJu<
‘»eluded in th e order ‘P rim ates’
Is the fact th a t you never saw
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peared to be perfectly oblivious with apes and monkeys, each be-
George W ashington an y proof th a t
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Jesus was divine?
homrne,” to overcome them w ith 1.
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“ g u ile .” W ell w hv n o t ? P eo t.le
6 eCh" W
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1 h e hall o n g tu ally tree-dw ellers in T ertiary
Do orthodox people use deductive
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was packed, densely. H ad these times. The apes of the old world
or inductive reasoning in trying to
a re so easily h u m b u g g ed . W h y
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ir a» 7 Pe° p le been asked to come an d hear are the highest of their class, are
not indulge them some? If they
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prove th eir religion?
W hich is
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J a socialist address, by a socialist, the naarest to m an, and are conse-
kick a t a nam e, >et accept the fact
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best, deductive or inductive rea­
w ithout the nam e, what does th e ,h ,'ee- f¡’url,,,, " f ,h * "‘ wot.hl no, quently eal ed anthropouls.’ They
soning?
name am ount to? “ A rose by any have be,‘n tl" 'r”- The M ethodist include gibbons, orange, chim pan-
If a w ayfaring m an, though a
r.tkow ..u.w
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n Preacher and all
would
have
»nd gorillas; all being w ithout
other nam e would smell as sweet.”
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fool, need not err therein, why are
[T h a t quotation is old, hackneyed, ^ l"Je“ ‘."e'1
Pe rl,ap» “ bused tails and cheek , touches, and hav-
there so m an y C hristian denom i­
.hreadbare, fra je d at the edges, and ,h r
alterw a' d -. Y<>ur Christian, -„g and ca ta rrh in e n o strils
like
nations?
all th a t f know, hut it tits in here . y° 'lr P°l,t,cal P artisan, sel- man. Ih e gap betaeen civilized
Is the religion of h u m an ity very
all the same 1
t,Om ° r u e v e r m a so n s, a n d h as an(1 ravage m an is g re a te r th an
easily understood? If Jesus had
It is a fine thing to be brave, but 'i 111 s ',Se ,for torehe8 U" !eR8 H
tl"*it betwee'' ‘ he savage and th e '
lived in the 19th century, to w hat
when we have a treacherous enem y
torch of discord;” and
eer- anthropo.d ape. Man and ape are
church do yon th in k he would
to overcome, who seldom fights i'u
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a r'’ tO
like the 8" “" lar
8tructure- ‘" ’'’¡b’ ’¡fe,
belong?
the open, is it not good policy to Pr° ve' blal “ red ra « ” “ > “ ' ’ttll, gesture and expression, and both
W hat did Jesus mean when he
use a little “guile?”
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an^
niay ^>e bard to lead or are subject to the same diseases,
told the orthodox people th a t they
T his phase of hum an nature I
<lriVe’ bUt Ca"
be “over’ f' ’r " ‘ diSti',C‘ 8ocie,i‘>9- " nd
were like whited sepulchres, which
illustrated a little when I lived a t I ° ° “ e Wlth g " ile‘”
bi,‘e f° r Protecti‘,n, com bination
indeed ap p ear beautiful outw ard,
Aumsville. I tried to get some of
f ’reethouHb t can only appeal ( favoring the developm ent of emo-
hut were w ithin full of dead m en’s
m y C h ris tly friends to take the to. the ln tell'8 cn t and independent tnm al and intellectual strength.
bones and of all uncleanliness?
“ F reethought,” then being pub- m inded, yet there are very m any M«»» differs from the ajie in th a t be
Was Jesus a reform er? Did he
¡ h I. h .1 i iu
n
S an
F ra n c isc o
by gOO.d pC° ple wh° leave to others ,U,rt * beavi“r b ra in ’ broader fore-
linked
try to tear down the orthodox
and
M acdonald
I th e*r Way ° f ‘ th iu k in g> a n <i the head, and possesses th e power of
Putuain
churches of his tim e?
could not get them to read it, let form ation of th eir ideas and con- building up ideas; he is more erect
Did such a m an as St. Jo h n
elusions;
therefore
if
the
cause
oi
has
a
more
¡»erfectly
developed
aloue subscribe for it. The nam e
m akes out Jesus to he, ever exist?
scared them . And there was sent m ental liberty shall more abound vocal m echanism , a better heel and
How long after Jesus had died
through (innocent) “ guile,” w h e re - shorter arm .
M an’s individual
me from the east, a few leaflets con­
did St. Jo h n say, “ In the begin­
fore shall we be adjudged “ sin n ers”? developm ent reads like a recapitu-
taining some sayings and senti­
ning was the W ord (Jesus), and the
I
his
is
not
cowardice;
it
is
diplo-
lation
of
his
ancestral
history.
H
is
m ents by “ Bob Ingersoll” . They
W ord (Jesus) was with God, and
were so headed and had the ad macy, strategy, ju stifiab le un d er prolonged infancy helped to evolve the Word (Jesus) was God?”
Did
the
conditions.
We
do
not
m
ake
gentleness,
as
the
habit
of
using
of the A. S. U., its officers etc.,
a m an by the nam e of Jo h n ever
printed ou them and they were no the conditions, neither can we slicks and stones, and of buildiifg lie?
go. No one would touch them , change them. They are, and it is shelters, evolved wit. Man and
the p a rt of wisdom th a t we m anage th e antropoid, or m an-like ape,
We give the T orch of R eason
so 1 did a little “guile.” I wrote
accordingly.
branched
off,
in
different
directions,
and the T ru th Seeker for one year
to the parties who printed them
‘‘Be ye therefore wise as serpents;” from a common ancestor, through to new’ subscribers, for $3. The
to p rin t me a hundred, leaving off
everything hut the subject m atter. never mind the “ dove” business, m an y centuries of evolution and T orch of R eason aud Free T hought
developm ent
as ape-like m an Magazine for one year to new
1 heu I «aid to my “ C hristian That can he considered later.
F. S. M atteson
[A lali] of the Miocene and Pleocene subscribers for $1.75.
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not m ean
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