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 p ™ ,. ,, .................. .." X “ r r , t * t " * 1’ " .......... - w » ..... .. ....... . . . . . . . . . i . „ i , , , , , , , . ......' 7 , « » m " 1 J X J E S X 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! • . ■ 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 ' ! '° ’« 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 . . ? ‘ 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 >i i i » • « « 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.