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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.”
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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
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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.
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