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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.
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Sentinel?
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