THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1898,
people of our time ought to have.
In order to show the weakness of
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orthodox
argum ent we wish
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f, r t n one or two of our good friend s
errors.
In illu stratin g
m an’s
weakness, and especially his lack
cf knowledge of tilings outside of
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philosophy of the thing. The holy
®ns'^er’hook would be a good thing
hi the hands of an honest
uoiiesi student
biuueni
lt!s answers were true and up to
date, but who would put works on
m athem atics which were published
when the honks of the l»il»le were,
1 i,an ds of our children? And
yet on questions of vital
h,s own experience he gave an ,1- anc,. this Jeivisl) b(>„k ur
ls
lustration of a bird in a cage. The said to be infallible and Sunday
bir«l knew nothing of the use of its after Sunday children and older
wing-, and m ight think th at its lit­ children are taught old, exploded
tle narrow cage was the whole theories of spirits and gods, of holy
hooks and celestial cities, of holy
world, and never dream of the
m others and savior sons, of eternal
trees
and u flowers
and running
tree» <*iiu
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luiiiim g agony and eternal bliss.
brooks and sunshine, unless it had
'Tis false! Tis all false! Awake,
reason and asked itself what its ;ve see p in g hosts of a ty ra n t relig-
wings were m ade for. So he said 1
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and H u m a n ity .
a reasoning m an sh u t up in his
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I You are in a worse bondage than
narrow cage of lile may well
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WCp thf cin d,Tn ?f Israftl wh®"
reason in regard
use when set free from its narrow w>» not allow his subjects to read
cage. This sounds very well un- exc'T t>"g il 1)e in bis favor!
Ah,
less one has already escaped from
the narrow cage of orthodoxy and even touch their m ental chains
is free to think. If the bird was
superstitious and had been told by
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a crow that it had a little balloon
\\ e have all heard of the person
inside its skin th at would carry it
who “ talks through his h a t,” no
up to a great big cage above the doubt, hut thinking through a wall
clouds where it could have a gold- or across a continent is a new per-
en swing and sing a new kind of petration by the editor of the New
song, it m ight believe it and dispensation.
Possibly we have
located the former individual in
reason (?) about as
rp, the , . averaSe ¡the person of the latter. He says,
Christian does. I h e
)iid has giving a ‘‘first lesson «ill m ctaphys-
wings, but has m an a soul? T h e jic s” :
comparison would have been better
‘ You cannot put two lam ps or
if some organ of man was used that bottles or stoves in the same space
we know he has. Thus we m ight at once. Two solid bodies cannot
occupy the same space at the same
reason as the Indian does, th a t our time.
But if you light two lam ps,
legs will be used in h u n tin g in that the light all goes together into one
happy hunting ground beyond the light. If you heat two stoves, the
heat all combines in one volume.
skv.
His next idea showed clearly to H eat’ liKh t’ <'l«dn«'y and mag-
J
n P r i a m penetrate
r n t o solid
lid
L n d io u
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.netism
bodies.
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our mind the principle cause <>L M ind penetrates through solid bod-
most of the orthodox error. I t was ies more rapidly than light. You
the idea of sp irit control over m at-j can think of a person through a
ter. This old m yth is a “ stick wal1 or across a continent as easily
tight” and we m ust hit it h a r,i |
^ n look through a pane of
glass.
whenever we get a chance. Our
Hia statem en(s of physics are
friend’s idea was that when he rais-' true and demonstrable;
hut the j
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ly. But he has anticipated this
criticism by saying that “ to the
average person pure tru th means
pure nonsense or pure nothing”,
But tru th will always hear investi-
?a d o n ; an d when we begin to in-
vest ¡gate this statem ent we are con-
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fronted at once with the inference
th a t, if when we think of a person
on the opposite side of a wall the
thought actually penetrates the
" J 1 and «-achee th at person, the
object of all thought m ust really
j have existence, otherwise it is un­
bear brothers of orthodoxy, the thinkable. You could m»t possibly
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same energy th a t opens the little think of a person as being on the
flower <>n the hillside is m anifest in opposite side of a wall if he happen-
the actions of m an. More compli- ed ,'°
somewhere els.
T hat
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m akes im agination infallible, and
eaten, to be sure, and it is more whe„ j t hink of a god, or a devil,
complicated in the Hight of a bee, or any sort of a spook, the spook
Than You can Get It E lsew here
but there are no reasons for think- really exists, and the thought will
ing th at the bee or th a t man has a penetrate worlds and space until
spirit.
the spook is found.
Ihe idea of spirit control of mat-
Mr. Priestley, in a late num ber
ter comes more from ignorance of of the T orch , tried an experim ent
the properties of m atter and an at- in physics to see if he could find
tempt to easily solve a hard prob- God. But the m etaphysical m e t h -
lern than an y th in g else.
Some od seems to be better adapted to
students who are too hizy to work god-hunting.
You have only to,
are dishonest with themselves and think, and the thing is done. The
¡ >ok at the answ er in “ the book” , trouble is, you don’t know any
instead of gaining strength for the more ah »ut your god after you find
next problem by digging into the J him than you did before. J. if. M , ± * j
ed his hand it was his spirit that
caused it to act, and in speaking of
the lower anim als he did what very
feu m inisters do, th a t is, adm itted
that he d.d not know w hether they
have spirits or not, although John
Wesley was quoted as believing
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that they have. He should go one
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step farther and adm it honestly
that he does not know th a t m an
has a spirit. He does not, and why
not be honest like Robert Inger-
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