THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1897.
warrior we would live over again
the struggles of the battle.
W ith
the traveler we would cross the
ocean and explore unknow n lands,
unravel the mysteries of p la n t and
anim al life, and tread with hap p y
m ind and glowing heart the classic
s,ji1’ W ith the philosopher, we
would adjust anew the lam p and
the crucible, and watch with breath-
less interest for the spark or the
effervescence which is to con-
firm or overthrow the favorite the-
ory. But alas, it was not to he!
The demon of superstition obliter-
ated those valuable books forever,
hist academies w’ere f a r m e d a t
A lexandria by Ptolem y Soter 314
Ibis m ay not he relished
by Christian prtaciiers, hut it is tru e,
nevertheless. 1 he science o fa stro n -
Age of Ignorance.
fame the celebrated English phil
osophers, m onk, and
scholar,
Rog»r Bacon, born in Somerset-
shire about 1214 A. D. Bacon,
wa- inventor of spectacles, and the
first to described the tru e theory of
tele-copes and microscopes.
He
foresaw the greatest of all inven-
tions in practical a-tronom y, the
m easurem ent of angles by optical
means. Bur for these discoveries
like all his predecessors he too was
im p riso n ed by the church. I will
now give a general review’ of in-
ventions and discoveries by the ac-
cients, with the names and dates
of each. Algebra was discovered
by D iophantus, a Greek w riter in
C o n tin u e d on 7 th , P a g e .
T orch of R eason )
P aine’s Age of Reason says th at
however backward they may be to
acknowledge it, it is nevertheless a
fact th a t the age of ignorance com-
menced with the introduction of
the Christian religion. The follow-
ing extracts from stan d ard works
and cyclopedias confirm the tru th
of Thom as P aine’s assertion of tin
ancient literature of the H indoo’s.
Sir Wm. Jones, Christian historian
and O rientalist, says, “ It was the
most volum inous imaginable, abso-
lutely i nex haust able, reminding
him of infinity ¡’self.” “ The Iliad
of H om er w ritten 900 years B. C.,”
wrote Johnson, “ num bers 24000
ress und.
verses: but the M ahabhaw ata of
Previously A cknow ledged.............. $82 00
the Hindoos 400,000, and
the omy has led m en to form g e r a n d e r con- Jo
h n D iam ond, C o b u rg .................... 100
P uranus, com prising only a portion ceptions of th e boundless extent Jo h n E Jo h n so n , V a le ...................... 1 00
of th eir religious books extend to ol thw universe, and t h e unlim ited j ^ ' ^ d ^ a i d y C r e s c e n t C i t y , C a l . . . 1 50
/F o r th e
Old R ags
c o lo r e d w i t h “ P E R F E C T I O N "
D y e s w ill m a k e
b e a u tifu l
C a r­
p e ts a n d R u g s,
a n d , u n lik e
o t h e r d y e s , t l i e c o lo r s o b t a i n e d
w ill n o t w a s h o u t o r f a d e .
T h e y a re s im p le a n d e c o n o m ­
ic a l t o u s e , a n d t h e n e w “ P e r ­
fe c tio n " C o tte n D y es a re e s p e ­
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C a rp e t m a k in g .
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A R T IS T IC W O R K
toll books, ab o u t 6C0 B. C. A 'pub- tlu» .cience, as well as its profes- ,>revi()lls|y A,.kn„'wleuK" , ............. , 51u M
lie lib ra ry was founded at Athens sol‘s-
bw cruel and in h u m an E M Baker, Junction City................
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by H ip p archus 526 B. C.. The practice of burning a t th e stake
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second lib rary of great note was was the playful pastim e ot ignor- J o h n E J o h n s o n , V a l e ................................ 10 00
founded a t A lexandria by Ptolernv an t priests for the crime of know- O M M a r c h a n d w if e . C o b u r g . . .
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P hiladelphus 204 B. C. which was in 8 an y th in g about the sta rry T o t a l ............................................................ $537 50
burnt 47 B. C. 400,000 volumes be- d °rae
fhe universe,
w w w w
S ecular Societies.
ing destroyed. From the rem ains
B ythagrous, Born 5 >dB. C. we
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no doubt in m y m ind th at they knowledge of the real position of F i r s t
have destroyed a large num ber of the stars, and with having tau g h t • h ’S
A n Id e a l R e p u b lic , p a p e r .
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valu ab le works secretly.
h ard ly possible to overrate the in-
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lluence which the study of these
ancient volumes would have had
on the world’s succeeding races of
m ankind, which have passed to the
great beyond, during the interven-
ing ages Hince these valuable works
were destroyed.
These ancient
works of science and history which
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were originally read and studied by
thousands, would now be food for
m illions, and would have enabled
the gifted teachers, (had not the
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W e k e e p u p w i t h t h e t i m e s in L i b e r a l ,
’°d ot the planets revolution, in-
Who can think P r o *rreef’i v e a n d R e f o r m h o o k s , a n d a s k
vented the stereographical method W o r t f p r j A n IH p o of Bonw simple y o u f o r a ll y o u r b o o k o r d e r s ; w ill f u r n i s h
of projection,
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ignorance and superstition fallen
like a pall over the intellects of
.•i men) to have placed the sciences,
arts, education and m orals, perhaps
a thousand years forward of the
present knowledge of such things.
These books which have been de­
stroyed by cruel fanaticism s would
have tran sm itted to us the wisdom
and learning of the departed sages
of ancient times. In those precious
works we w’ould possess the constant
com panionship o f their authors,
we would
have in those vol­
umes
th e
orators
declaim ing
to us,
the historian reciting,
an d the poets singing.
W ith the
ution tor a true science of astron-
omy.
He also determ ined the
first
inequality
of
the
moon and th e eqation of the centre.
To him must also he attrib u ted the
establishm ent of the epicycles and
eccentrics, a geom etrical concep­
tion for the purpose of resolving
the apparent m otions of the hea­
venly bodies, on the principle of
circular movements. Little if any
advance was m ade in astronom y
during the period of the dark ages.
C hristian ignorance and supersti­
tion com bating it and m urdering
and burning its professors, until
there appeared on the horizon of
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