Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903, February 10, 1898, Image 1

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    VOL 2.
For th*1 Torch of Reason.
The D ig n ity of Labor.
BY JO H N P. G t'J I.D .
The dignity of labor is in th e m te ll ger.ce of
! he laborer.
8ILVEBT0N, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1898.
NO. 15.
Lvt li, the highest au th o rity on D evelopm ent of H ig h er R aces Im -
answ er this interesting question,
the subject, says that it m ust have
p ro b a b le .
which is of such im portance in
required to cause the changes th a t
connection with the future of th e
By Dr I.. B uchner
we know, at least two hundred m il­
hum ar race, there has heeui am ple
room for fancy and the rage for
lion years. I hink of these vast de­
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the w ork.’’
dust through the s ik n t depths o f , P o tio n to the advance of civiliza- be conceived merely from the
ancient seas! Think of the micro- I t,o n ’.and t»»a t therefore the trans- stan d p o in t of th e theory of evolu-
Not him who digs because lie m ust
When driven to e x ertio n ,
scopical forms of life, constructing ,(,,‘nilng effects of clim ate, soil, food. (¡on, this being accepted as a n i n -
Can g ath er from th e rising dust
their m inute houses of lime, giving ,(F a l,ry. ¿’c . , which m ake them - contestable n atu ra l law we can
An honor for his person.
The slave is m ean w hen he is slow
any ,„ lt an affirm ative
life to others, leaving their man* selves felt so unrestrainedly by th e 9carce|y
Of wit, lacking self-approval,
But, on th e o th er
And there is n o th in g sinks so low
sions beneath the waves, and so »orldof an n u als and plants, m ust answ er for It.
As working w orm s who grovel.
¡through
countless
generations rem ain more or less w ithout action hand, when we r,cognize the fact
building the foundations of conti­ upon the civilized man. A nd in ,h a , , he activ ity of n)an b in ife| (
There is no bravery in brass,
fact we see how the civilized E urop- haa in tn duced an entirely new or-
Xo moral sense in m arble,
nents and islands.
X ograndeur in th e ox nor a ss—
ean or A m erican by m eans of his der into the world of living beings
The} can but tug and garble.
Go hack of all life th at we now
im proved arran g em en ts and know- and, p artially a t least, substituted
But man can th in k as well as work
k
n
o
w
—
hack
of
all
the
riving
liz-
Assign him self a m ission ;
In increased strength Ids fondest hope ards, the arm ored monster« the!
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rational spontaneity for the blind
Shall dud o-erflowed fruition.
hissing se rp e n ts, th e w ingetj an d
al «»«‘»d** »••<* fore« of n atu re, we s h a ll be inclined
fa, ged h o r r o r s - b a c k to the Lau- r . 7 Uni8n,' !e? , , a '
V''? 10 C° m ' ! '° <i,,Uh' Wh*“ her ” an io hia
There’s c u ltu re learned in classic a rt
rentian rocks — to the eozoon the
n iice . u \
in t e n
own present condition can lie regarded
And discipline in labor,
firs, of living things that we have !
T '1' “
as n t,c o n d itio .,a lly g o v ern ed hy .1,0
\\ hen hands obey an a rd e n t h e a rt,
To help oneself or neighbor.
found — back to
first in c ........
ru s _ la -! a ? '" ? ? ”, ' ' V - ' ' 8K " S t!'
i al'ove’m e,' l '“ " ‘'d law or condition
He is a governor of m en
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Who makes, aught which can raise I tion of tlie molten world - back of e d t o the localities and c l,m a te .jof „ , ings. The Pall9P9 whiph
All backward I,ranches ,,f .h e g r e a C ,.ar!y lim es of the h u m an , ace drove
A ml t hey are g rea test, also, when
I the wave of fire and the robe of
dis- I i certain
trila « or branches
to q u it
T heir works th e W . O l d e s t praise t h e n . fla m e _ b a p k
l i n ,p w ,
„ hum an fam ily will by degrees
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the substance of the earth blazed
w |lh but few exception* o n - j,h e ir dw elling places for d istan t
A man both w orks anti also th in k s
in the glowing sun with all the ,1, r thl'
” f c.vtlized m an. J religio„ 8i h ,1PrP thpy 9omp(i„ le9
To v irtu e m ay be v o tive:
stars th a t wheel about the central “ '" ‘ 7 Ca,‘ eVen l,OW .e a“,1\ f,,r,‘ae’‘ I subjugated th e people living there
The world u nto h im self lie links
By toil from w isest m otive.
fire. T hink of tlie days and nights / ' 111
e, itain uniform ity a nd som etim es interm ingled with
So he who labors for bis love,
th a t lie between!—th in k of th e <tn "
“ '« h f ia l conditions ih e m , in c o n ju n c tio n .w ith their
Has most of m ig h t’s benignity,
And d rin k s th e glory from above
That flows to h o n est d ig n ity .
t» rie s ,.h e withered leaves o f tim e,
g reater rudeness and the stronger
th a t strew the d esert of the past-
“ ' '* d !tf" 7 T
, influences of the forces of nature,
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, ,
...
r r >’« rt of the inhabited end habit- nlHy I,, th o 8 e(| a y 9 h a v e g | Ven m any
N ature does n»»t hurry.
h u riv . rim e able o a r t of n n r n l a n o t
v ,,.., I
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‘ ral influences
ou plant which
t. Even
H h a t H ave th e W o rld ly D one? cannot he wasted — cannot he lest, those n l atu
act opportunities for the breaking off
J The future rem ains eternal and all most d eterm inately upon our race of new races or varieties of m an,
even though we can scarcely believe
A few years ago a few men he- ^ ie Pas^ ’rt as though it had not in the n atu ra l state, such as clim ate,
in the prim itive unity of the hum an
came wicked enough to use th e ir i *)ee,,~ as ‘h o u g h it were to be. I he n atu re of the soil, distribution of
race or assum e th a t the m any and
senses. They began to look and
kno"'9
loss nor gain, land and w ater, etc., have become
great diversities of the hum an type
listen. They began to re allv se e an d !
We kn°w som ething of the his-
« certain and not inconsiderable ! ari. a |l mere
mere ram
ram ification»
of a a
ifications of
then they began to reasot', They
" O h e w o rld -so m e th in g of the ^ . e n i »e, v,enable to civilized m an; j (undauientel 9Iot.k> pr<ldllcpd ,,y
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''h u m a n race; and we knew that whlltlt he llHa found such efficacious the struggle for existence. On the
forgot heaven ond hell long enough m an has ljved and 9trllggled m ean so f protection against those: contrary there are m any im p ,„ ta u t
to take some in terest in th is world, through want and war, through »‘Ctions o f n atu re which he cannot reasons in favor of the opinion th a t
They began to exam ine soils and » pestilence and famine, through
even o a t v 111
his n m
first
from
-------o-- ig- ’Hreotly govern, th a t they are in- vvva»
et ’ developm
x vnupinr ent
ii v JiiuiJ
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tinrnnoo
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t 1*4 411 111 I 11 r r him
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rocks. T h ey noticed w hat had been norance and crim e, through fear capable of troubling him except in the world of anim als, man made
done by rivers and seas. T h e \ and hope on the old earth for mil- a v*‘ry dim inished degree. It need his app.-arance as a num ber of dif-
,
,
* lions and m illions of years. At last ^ ‘arcely be added th a t the dominion ferent species. These species may
Ut " n u , l l , |g about the we fcnow t|ja t infallible popes and
m an over the organic world of
certainly have subsequently be­
in t (n tin e a rth . I le y found th a t countless priests and clergymen, anim als and p lan ts is now so great
come e x tra o rd in a rily m ultiplied
most of the rocks had been deposit- who had been “called,’’ filled with ar,d perm anent th a t we may foresee, an(1
a” sometimes
and mcreai-ea
increased and
and m
may
sometimes
‘■'i and stratified in the water, the Holy Ghost, and presidents of a tim e when there will only he a lPO Rave interm ixed hut never-
L icks 70,000 feet in thickness, colleges, kings, em perors and exec- cultivated p lan ts and anim als, and theless we m ust not suppose th at
I hey found th a t coal was once veg- utives of nations had m istaken the " h e n hum an selection will have re- this process will co n tin u e w ithout
• Bible m atter. They m ade the best blundering guesses of ignorant sav-
placed naturalzelectioii everyw here lim it „ h e n eppoeeil l,y the m ighty
ci Iculalions th ey could o f the time age» for the wisdom of an inflhite
except In the «ea. and equalizing influences of civiliza-
it required to make the coal, and god. At last we know th a t the sto-
From these points of'view we tion. It seems ra th e r to be prob-
concluded th a t it m ust have taken ry of creation, the beginning of m ust also answ er the question able th a t under the influence of
'ix or seven m illions of years, things, as told in the “ sacred hook” , which, since the prom ulgation of th is m om entum a reducing move-
Ihey exam ined the chalk cliffs, is not only untrue, but utterly ah- the Darw inian
theory, has so ment will be opposed to the differ-
found th at they were composed of surd and id io tic
Now we know frequently been raised, w hether it eiitiatin g one, thus tending to
the microscopic shells of m inute or- th at the inspired writers did not is possible th a t in the future, other superinduce a g reater uniformity
ganisms, th a t is to say, the dust of know and th a t the god who inspir- and higher races or branches of the or sim ilarity of m ankind in all
these shells. T his dust settled over ed them did not know. We are no great hum an family will be develop- p arts o»'the earth , and th is by the
areas as large as Europe and in longer misled hy m yths and le- ed from those now existing, as destruction of the weaker and a
some places the chalk is a mile in gends. We rely upon facts. The m ight be expected from the ex- co n stan t increase of the stronger or
depth. This m ust have re q u ir'd world is our witness and the stars am ple of th e past. In the various more intelligent ra c e s .— [M an in
niany m illions of years.
! testify for us.— [Ingersoll.
attem p ts th a t have been m ade to the Past, P resent, and F uture.