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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 189;
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Scientific W isdom.
' miracles, have become familiar to
him in the present day; and at this
Helps toward th e T ract, “ False Claim s
Christianity — Science
Pro­ moment contemplated as simple
motes Civilization.” — Bv Mrs.
and natural consequences of which
M. M. T u rn e r.
i he comprehends the mechanism an d
the cause. Man, in fathoming na-
“There are fundamental ideas
.bn social edihce
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which » the
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earthquakes,
of the
about which '
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the social world turns. In each of .
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these a thousand others germinate;
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the electrical fluid, the
and the thousand are wrong if the
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line is wrong.
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norant as indubitable signs of hea-
mental, pivotal ideas, which have
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liecome stock notions of the people: i •
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lowing up, in rectifying the experi-
‘Csesars and Napoleon’s are civi iz- ,
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ence already made, will go still
ers; royalty is related to God; the
further and discover effects and
creator made some to be served and
causes which are totally veiled from
others to serve; standard belief is
eyes. . The
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i ne u united
n iie u e efforts
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more important than standard A» ,
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the human species will one day per-
character; morality divorced from i
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naps penetrate even the sanctuary
religion is dangerous.’
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“Any social structure founded
many of those mysteries which, up
upon such alone is a monstrosity.
to the present time, she seems to
“The best possible character re­
have refused to all of his research­
sults largely from a careful study es.
of our relations to others, from a
In contemplating man under his
right understanding of all our rela­
true aspect, in quitting authority to
tions which are interwoven every­
follow experience, in laying aside
where among men, in all phases
consult l reason,
in suomil-
submit-
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v error
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e a s o n , in
and departments of life,” These!,-
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tn)g everything to physical aws,
relations are taught by science, not f
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fro,n
which
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agination
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theology.
vainly exerted its utmost power to
“Instruction in pure human eth­
withdraw them; it will be found
ics, divorced from religion, becomes
that the phenomena of the moral
a study of the relations which exist
world follow exactly the same gen­
among men in this real world. Re­
eral rules as the physical, and that
ligion is a system of beliefs and
the greater part of those astonish­
hopes. Ethics is a system of prin­
ing effects which ignorance, aided
ciples of conduct for man as a so­
by his prejudices, makes him con­
cial being in this life; its realm is
sider as inexplicable and as won­
eternally a realm of actualities.”—
derful, are natural consequences
[Popular Science Monthly.
flowing from simple causes.—[Bar­
on D’Hol bach’s System of Nature.
W hen?
\\ henever the barriers of priest­
craft in this country or the world
are a thing of the past, then, and
not until then, will all humanity
realize the freedom and good for
which this world is intended. Let
the good work toward liberty and
freedom go on until that time is
reached. I am now 52 years of age
and I hope I may live to see that
time.
W ith good wishes for the T orch
of R eason and the Liberal Univer­
sity.
E x -C atiiolic .
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