SU6HT <U „o' iff ûfcî, VU-' VOL. 1. The Path of Independence. 4 V. * -X_L 1 J ï 1 k J V7 L i t SIL\ ERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, »897. NO. 26. the birth of those creatures which lieves in building a home here, in he is a man of science; of another, we may regard as the earliest rep this world. It trusts to individual he is a man of imagination. The An easy task it is to tread resentatives of the human type, for effort, to energy, to intelligence, fact is, science and imagination are The path th e m u ltitu d e will ta k e ; But independence dares th e stake only the gradual evolution and in- to observation and experience, rath- not only compatible, but there can If t)ut bv fair conviction led. beritance from generation to ge"er- er than to the unknown and super- be no really great scientific man Then haste, tru th -see k er, on th y way, ationof the faculties awakened in natural. It desires to be happy on who is deficient in imagination. Nor heed th e w orlding’s sm ile o r frow n, those creatures by their more perfect this side the grave Science does not consist merely in The brave alone can w ear th e crown organization could originate that. Secularism means food and fire- collecting facts, It does not con The noble only clasp the bay. advance or continual improvement j side, roof and raiment, reasonable sist in enumerating things that (Io, w orker of th e public w e a l; of mankind which we must at pres work and reasonable leisure, the have been observed. It consists W hen knaves com bine, and plot and ent regard as the final and highest cultivation of the tastes, the rather in the observation and col- plan, object of all earthly existence. But acquisition of knowledge, the enjoy- lection of facts, in their classifica- A ssert th e d ignity of m an, whilst, in those earliest periods of menX of the arts, and its promises tion and the discovery of the prin- Teach th e honest h earts to feel. his development, man was sub for the human race comfort, inde ciples which underlie them. The Still keep th y independence w hole; jected to precisely the same natural pendence, intelligence, and, above popular idea that a man who brings Let nothing w arp thee from thv course, laws or conditions as the forms of all, liberty. It means the abolition together a basket of bones or a bo And thou sh a lt wield a g ia n t’s force, , the vegetable and animal worlds of sectarian feuds, of theological of shells is a scientist is a very And wrong before th y foot shall roll. —Selected. which had preceded him in a long hatreds. It means the cultivation great error. The man of science is series of influences, whether inju of friendship and intellectual the one who can distinguish be Man, the Final Product of Terres rious or beneficial, to which he hospitality. It means living for tween the different bones, can put trial D evelopm ent. could oppose but a feeble resistance, ourselves and each other; for the those of the same genera specses of Man did not come upon the earth i he has subsequently, in the laps« present instead of the past; for this variety together and reconstruct spontaneously, but by the medita of time, by the further development world rather than for another. It the frame of the creatures to which tion of the same natural forces and of his menial faculties, emancipated means the right to express your they belong. He is the one who causes to which all life owes its ori- himself more and more from those thought in spite of popes, and can take those shells, separate them g in . He did not descend from influences, and has finally attained priests, and gods. It means that and describe the creatures which above or from the ether, but he has a point at which he may say to impudent idleness shall no longer live in them and their relations sprung up from below by the same himself with no little pride that live upon the labor of honest men. with one another. In the higher processes which lie at the founda- present and future late has fic It means the destruction of the sense, the man of science is one tion of all terrestrial development. come more or less independent business of those who trade in fear. who from the observation of facts In accordance with the present nature, that is to say, it is in his It proposes to give serenity and has the ability to arrange them in state of our knowledge, he can be own hands. Nature has, as it were, content to the human soul. It will order and to explain their meaning, regarded as nothing more than the recognized herself in him has con put out the fires of eternal pain. as Newton explained the cause of last and highest product of that sciously advanced in opposition to It is striving to do away with the fall of the apple, when he by slow process of development and herself—and has thus undertaken violence arid vice, with ignorance, the power of imagination conceived evolution by which our planet, the a peculiar task, the fulfillment of poverty, and disease. It lives for that the same force which brought earth, in the course of enormous which will remove both nature and the ever-present today, and the the apple to the ground was that periods of time completes its nat man further and further from the ever-coming tomorrow. It does which held the planets in their or ural cycle of life, which in turn is rude and imperfect states of the not believe in praying and receiv bits. No great discovery is made only a single phase of eternity. past.—Buchner. ing, but in earning and deserving. without the use of the imagination. What higher or more perfect struc It regards work as worship, labor It enables the man of science Secularism . tures than ourselves may still slum as prayer, and wisdom as the savior to think beyond what has BY R. G. INGERSOLL. ber, to come forth hereafter by the of mankind. It says to every been actually discovered; then by same process, we know not. But Secularism is the religion of human being; “Take care of your the use of the scientific, method, upon one point our science leaves humanity; it embraces the affairs self, so you may be able to help he can verify what he has con no doubt, namely, that hitherto of this world; it is interested in others; adorn your life with the ceived as possible. Imagination nothing higher or more perfect than everything that touches the welfare gems called good deeds; illumine is to the scientist what the lamp is man has been produced by Nature, of a sentient being; it advocates at your path with the sunlight called on the cap of the miner; it en and that it is not only the right, tention to the particular planet in friendship and love.” ables him to see a little beyond but the duty of man to regard him which we happen to live; it means Secularism is a religion—a his present position. Men like self as the ruler over all existences that each individual counts for religion that is understood. It has Humboldt, Huxley, Tyndall, are accessible to him, and to guide and something; it is a declaration of no mysteries, no mummeries, no those in whom imagination is change them as much as possible intellectual independence; it means priests, no ceremonies, no false strong and vivid. Darwin and for his own necessities and pur that the pew is superior to the hoods, no miracles, and no persecut Wallace never could have discov poses. pulpit, that those who bear the ions. It considers the lilies of the ered the principle of natural se It is easy to see that hy this a burdens shall have the profits, and fields, and takes thought for the lection without imagination to perfectly new and previously un- that they who fill the purse shall morrow’. It says to the whole enable them to look beyond the known principle was introduced hold the strings. It is a protest world: “ Work, that you may eat, popular theory as well as the into nature and the world in gen- against theological oppression, drink, and be clothed; work, that scientific knowledge to see that eral, a principle which is essentially against ecclesiastical tyranny, enjoy; work, that you ; the popular theory was untenable. distinct from any thing that pre- against being the serf, subject, or may not want; work that you may B. F. UNDERWOOD. ceded it. For it is only in man slave of any phantom, or of the give, and never need.”—The Free- Like rnoc! garments, everything that the world becomes conscious priest of any phantom. It is a thinker. in life has a right and a wrong side. to such a degree that it rises out of protest against wasting this life Science and Im agination. You can take any joy, and by turn its previous dream-like natural ex- for the sake of one that we know ing it round, find troubles on the istence and allows dominion over not of. It proposes to let the gods It is not uncommon for those who nature to take the place of a nearly take care of themselves. It is know very little or nothing of sci other side; or, you take the greatest involuntary subjection to it. Never- another name for common sense; ence to put science and imagination trouble, and by turning it round, theless this did not take place sud- that is to say, the adaptation of in opposition to each other, as find joys on the other side. The gloomiest of mountains never casts denly or all at once, but very grad- means to such ends as are desired though one were inconsistent W ’ith a shadow’ on both sides at once.— ually and only a long time after and understood. Secularism be- the other. It is said of such a one, Investigator.