THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1897 ple or an individual may b e at any given time, and is therefore vari able according to time, place and [B y I) k . L cdwio B uchner .] The only •Z correct and tenable circumstances. Moses, the great moral principle depends upon the est teacher and leader of the Jewish relation of reciprocity. There is people, felt no sting» of conscience therefore no better guide to moral when he allowed three thousand conduct than the old and well- of bis people to be cut to pieces as known proverb: “ W hat you would a propitiatory offering to the Lord, not have done to vou, that to but only feared that they would not others never do.’’ “If we com be sufficient, whilst nowadays such plete this proverb with the addi a proceeding would be regarded as tion: “Do to other« as you would inexpressibly horrible and brutal; D on’t have to take our word for it, when we sav •z they should do to you,” we have and the honored David, the darling we have a better and larger stock of new goods th a n the entire code of virtue and morals of all theologians, when be conquered ever before, for the m erchandise is here to speak for in hand, and indeed in a bet ter and the city of Rabbah (2 Sam. xii. 31) itself, and for us. Of course we d o n ’t m ean th a t you simpler form than could be fur “brought forth the jieople that were would th in k our ads deceptive, for we have always nished us by the thickest manuals therein, and put them under saws, endeavored to m ake them the opposite. You m ight of ethics, or the quintessence of all and under harrows of iron, and th in k however that we were over-enthusiastic. Y ou'll the religious systems in the world. under axes of iron, and made them e n th u se too when you see the new goods. H onestly All other moral instructions pass through the brick-kiln: and we are very proud of our stock, and believe th e styles whether derived from the con thus did he unto all the cities of will please you, and the prices interest you. * * * science, from religion, or from phil the children of Ammon.” The osophy, are perfectly superfluous Pbcenicans, Carthaginians, Persians in t h e presence of these simple ami etc., although belonging to thecivil- practical rules. Of course these ized nations of antiquity were not rules must become more ami more deterred by their conscience from efficacious the higher the condition burning their own children alive or of reciprocity is developed by the burying living innocent men; and greater advance of social state, and the Inquisitors of the Middle the more the individual, by intelli ages and tiedr associates of earlier gence and culture, is rendered ca and later times believed that they Corner Main & Water Sts. Silverton, Oregon. pable of comprehending the ob were only fulfilling their duty in jects of society and his personal burning about nine millions of peo relation thereto, and of arranging ple as witches and magicians in the bis conduct accordingly. It is course of eleven centuries, and therefore a gen rally recognized making so many other innocent fact, and moreover sufficiently people suffer under the most hor proved by history, that the idea of rible tortures. When the Roman morality in general as in particu emperors visited the newly formed D E A L E R IN lar cases becomes further and more Christian communities with the C hem icals, Drugs, strongly developed in proportion bloodiest persecutions, they be- , M edicine, Toilet A rticles, as culture, intelligence and know lieved that they were doing good P erfum ery and Soaps, Stationery, ledge of the necessary laws of the and that their consciences were P a te n t Medicines, P ain ts and Oils, common weal increase, and that, clear, just as much as the later Com bs and Brushes. in accordance with this, greater Christians themselves when, after public order has always gone hand their doctrine had become victor in band with alleviation of the ious, they revisited all these perse cutions and outrages in the most criminal laws. As an individual, or as primitive ample measure upon those who man, man is entirely unacquainted thought differently from themselves. with morals, and blindly follows The murderous wars of modern the impulses of the passions, the times also, arising frequently from hunger, the cruelty, etc , which he the most inconsiderable causes, are has in common with the animals. generally waged by people who DEALERS IN His moral properties are only de win by them fame, honor and con veloped by living together with sideration, whilst in a future and others in a society regulated by happier time such proceedings will G E N E R A L M E R C H A N D IS E certain principles of reciprocity, and probably be regarded as the gravest by the knowledge of the laws which moral crimes. Conscience is therefore nothing are necessary for the existence of such a community. The innate established and innate, but rather conscience or law’ of morals which something variable and acquired, Corner Hain & Water Sts. Silverton, Oregon. so many regard as the true deter or an expression of human know mining principle in the actions of ledge itself. This advancing know men, is nothing more than a great ledge has caused the recognition of SAMUEL A flES, superstition, an “Infant-school many things as innocent or per JOHN HICKS, morality,” as the philosopher Scho missible which formerly passed as penhauer so significantly expresses grave sins or crimes which for it. For the conscience is formed merly were not so regarded; and and developed only with the pro hence also as is well known the “ — : DEALERS I N : gressive knowledge of the duties ideas of good and evil present the which the individual has to fulfill most striking differences, nay even towards imaginary supernatural complete contradictions, at differ powers (such as Gods, Heroes, etc.), ent times and among different peo all of which would be entirely towards his fellow-men, towards ples, Stoves, A gricu ltu ral Im plem ents, G uns, F ish in g impossible if the innate conscience society, the state and so forth. This of man were conferred upon him as Tackle, C utlery, and S porting Goods. belief, however, is entirely depend an eternal prescription binding ent on the grade of general cul him for all times. ture or knowledge at which a peo- ( to be continued .) florals. “Seeing is Believing.” You Yours to Please, A. WOLF & SON. J. E. Hammond, — DRUGGIST, ^-^■^Silverton, Oregon. 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