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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1897)
« T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, T H U R SD A Y , JU L Y 22, 18o7. Is it True? The Only Way For Sale. E l HER HARDESTY, One hundred and sixty acres of E ditor T orch of R eason : [k j& W o tinalter land in Tillam ook countv. Yours o f th e 28th ult. at hand. Inclosed find $2.50 for subscription One mile from N etarts Bay. House, Will practice in all courts of th e sta te Special a tten tio n given to collections to U niversity fund and $1.00 for 16x24. Sm all clearing. Excellent and n o tary work. the T orch of R eason fo r one year. water. Good bargain. In q u ire at R oom 3. W olf B lock . I am glad to know the U niver this office. SILVERTON, OREGON sity is started, for th e only way our cause can be m ade to prosper is by educating, and how well the churches understand it. Success to the Secular school. Yours tru ly , Cal. M. P ritchard . E ditor T orch of R eason : I was just reading of a peculiar circum stance of which the doctor in attendance said, “ It is evidently not a disease of the brain as the mind is unusnllv b rig h t,’’ thereby recognizing the fact, as all scientists do, th at m ind is dependent on the brain and not som ething separated from it and m erely playing on it as occasion requires, as S piritualists . claim it is. Some tim e ago in answer to the question, “ W hat are the com ponent A Noble Work. parts of sp irit? ” a spirit-guide through a m edium said th at the To T he E ditor : mind was the sp irit—the th in g For the enclosed one dollar please th at lived on after th e death of the extend m y subscription to the m aterial body. In an article in the | T orch of R eason one year. P er Investigator of J u ly 3, a spiritualist h a p s my paper has stopped before says: “ The brain is the connecting this reaches you. In such a case link by which th e m ind controls please begin at the last num ber the body;” in fact all sp iritu alists sent as I do not wish to m i-s any. I am very much interested in the speak of the m ind as som ething separate, distinct and disconnected work of Secularism and m ust say from the m aterial body—som ething th a t the progress it has m ade has th at can exist independent of or been much greater th an I had a n ticipated. ganized m atter. Too much cannot he said in In an effort to learn the tru th of Our Stock this idea it is necessary to have a praise of the noble work th a t is be i Of fledium-Priced ing done a t Silverton, and it only i clear understanding as to w hat rem ains for all lovers ’ of Free- mind really •r is. • Mind is intellect. It is m erely thought to push the plan to a the ability or capacity to think. crowning success. H oping th a t the When we say a person has a great T orch m ay shine un til all super m ind we mean the sam e as we do stition has disappeared, I rem ain, Respectfully, when we say he is ‘‘b ra in y ,” th a t is E. S tevens . i i the ability to th in k deeper and Idaho. clearer th an some others. W hen Too Much Education. Silverton, Oregon we say a person’s m ind is affected Says tb»- Springfield (M ass.) Re we m ean th a t he has lost the ability to th in k as well as form erly publican: Prof. H arry T hurston Peck of and the doctors say his brain is af fected, and no one denies it because Columbia university thinks there is too much education in this coun all recognize it to be tru th . E ducation If this idea of m ind is correct, try for the “ m asses.” -------- DEALERS IN--------- causes “ discontent,’’and «hat is the and I believe it is the universally Not even accepted one, how can it exist foe of established order. after the dissolution of the m aterial Mr. Rockefeller holds such a view. organization? T h at we will have This m ulti-m illio n aire m ust think no ability to th in k after we are th at education for the “ m asses” is dead is as evident as th a t we had a good thing, else he would not Corner Hain and Water Streets no such ab ility before we were found a university and keep giving money to other institutions. It born. SILV ER TO N , O R E. The same m edium under the “ in may he to o harsh to say th a t Prof. sp iration” of the same spirit-guide H arry T hurston Peck is an offensive SA M U EL AMES JO H N H IC K S said in answ er to a question that exam ple of the literary snob. “ Life, thought, etc., are the result, Godless Education. and not the cause of m aterial o r ganization.” If this is true, and T hus men are swayed bv words. who denies it, will some believer in And when you talk about “ godless DEALERS IN continued life tell us by w hat education,” \o n seem to m any to method of reasoning they con make a great point for the Bible in clude th at the resu lt will continue I the public schools. But, in tact, after the cause has ceased to exist? the phrase is u tterly irrelevant. A G R IC U L T U R A L IM P L E M E N T S I know th a t a great m any cling W hat is the trouble about a “god to the belief in a future life because less education,” so far as a school Fishing Tackle, C utlery, Sporting Goods, Etc., Etc. is concerned? The school is es as they say it is a pleasant belief. tablished to teach things of this SILVERTON, OREGON. But the question with me is, and world, not of the next. W hat has should be with all, not is it pleas “godliness to do with Latin gram ant , but is it TRUE? Is t h e e v i mar? In what different way w uhl dence sufficient to justify us in ac a godlv m an explain th e solution cepting it as tru th ; does it appeal o f a problem in q u ad ratic equations, from the way in which an ungodly to our reason and experience? m an would elucida ° the sam e sub W hat lienetit can we get bv be ject? W hat is the distinction be A W eekly S e c u la r P ap er for S e c u la r lieving an y th in g th a t is not true? tween a godly and an ungodly map A re you a S e cu laris t? A re you a of the U nited States. — American ists. Yours for T ru th , Sentinel? , S ubscriber? .J. P. M c C luskey . Iowa. $ 1 .0 0 per Y ear. A. WOLF & SON C u s ite r & D a v e n p o rt .. .GENERAL jV lE RCHANDISE Hicks & Ames. H ardw are, Tinw are, Stoves, TORCH OF REASON