TUE TORCH OE REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1898.
R c O S O I l niKl,at‘‘ aneestors left such an im- emotional insanity; those having a than giving them the most be.’ ti
press upon him that he never feels strong will, ungoverned by intel- ful crutches of a profound fait} j
The Only Paper of Its Kind. that it is possible for him to lect, become so willful in the prop- a divine savior. The one wii
P ublished W eekly by th e Liiieral Uni­ really have the respect and love of agation of fanaticism, that they them self-power to resist the h p,
any one. Did you ever feel all force, hv every means in their pow- tations of their inherited weakness*
versity Com pany, in the In terests of
C onstructive, Moral Secularism .
alone ? Did you ever feel that you er,by thumbscrew : nd rack,by dun- es, the trickery of rogues and the
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E d ito r were a b , t ^e P °*n t ’ n a vast ex' g^on and tire, by boycott and rid- advice of fools, while the other will
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I soon to be blotted out? Oh, how a hindrance to their holy religion, strength; and when the trial comCx
E ntered at the {jostotfiee at Silverton, awful lonesome you felt!
If you Supernaturalism stretches forth no to resist the inherited weakness?
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were religious you took it to your helping hand to the excessively the trickery of rogues and the ,h
'god, and finally the feeling gave stolid character. To brood over vice of fools, they have not self,
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haps such feelings are foreign to balanced position into absolute j tion is against religion, and religion
le tte r or m oney order.
your mental world; hut you have nothingness of thought and ex pres- , is a great hindrance to science, to
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feelings, and as they are modified sion by the religion of our fathers, true enducation and to human pro-
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subscription will ex p ire w ith th e nex t of mental, characteristics, they are dependence on the goodness of a
nu m b er. You are earnestly requested
to renew so th a t you may receive the pa­ yours and yours alone. Some have savior, and thus belittling hi? own
per w ithout in te rru p tio n . We have de­ a feeling of shame to have others power to save himself, religion puts
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cided th a t it is best for all concerned
th a t we do not send papers l«u ger th an think that they have, or are recip- a premium on the neglect of the
The love of money is a scarce ar­
th e tim e paid for unless so ordered. ients of, affection, and another cultivation of the intellectual facul-
ticle, and there is so much evil in
T his w ill prev en t any loss and we will
seems never satisfied unless mak­ ties. Why should a child learn to the world that one would naturally
know ju st w here we stan d .
We request you to send us the nam es ing himself and every one around
observe? \\ by should he endeavor think that evil has other roots be-
of Secularists who m ight become su b ­
scribers and we w ill m ail sam ple copies. him miserable. Still another haa to have a most perfect memory? 8i,]es the love of anything. Wesay
inherited a tendency of adoration, Why should his judgment he made that the love of m
is a gcar(,Je
T H U R S D A Y , A U G . n , E. M . 298 and Ins environment has permitted as perfect as possible and his reas- ' article because we know that there
it to have full sway over the coun- on he cultivated to its highest ca- | are but
who are trying hard to
teraclmg tendencies, so that this parity, if faith is the main thing — 1 get money> who real‘|v ,ove )he
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one-sided being is ready to fall the one panacea that will save him ! money. Most every one wants to
There are no two persons alike. down and worship any thing. When ; here and in a world to come? H I get money for something they wish
We are compounds, made tip of our
this weakness is coupled with a Jesus saves os hy failh, why should to buy. Now if this object is a good
inherited qualities, as a base, and siiong imagination, we find a relig- we try to save ourselves by cultiva
one, if it is an honest one, then
the different degrees of strength of ious fanatic, and it matter» not in tion?
there is no evil in trying in all hon­
our physical and mental faculties. what country we search, many ex-
Then again, if we inherit tenden orable ways, to get the money with
Speaking of our characters alone, amples of this abnormal mind may cies which pull us toward the brink
the different combinations of our be found, and no more prolific cause of failure, there must be causes for which t<» make the purchase. The
mental faculties, which may be can be found for it than the vic­ that inheritance, and is it not true evil all lies in not knowing enough
combined in so many millions of tim’s own and his ancestors’ ignor that such questions as are forced to have a good object for w hich to
ways, really make us what we are Ance, for, outside of the adoration into the minds of mothers hy su labor. Not knowing, or ignorance,
after our ancestors, immediate and and love which we should have for pernatural dogmas must puzzle then, is the root of all evil, and in
remote, have done their part in one another, no one has yet with and confound them, and hinder the our endeavors to establish the Lib­
eral University we believe that our
leaving their impress upon us.
complete knowledge of an object intellectual capacity of the oft- object is the very best. We want
One may have a strong emotion­ worshipped it. Mystery, which al- spring? There is a cause for every
al character, and not be very intel­ wa}s implies ignorance, is neces- feeling of paiu; there is a cause for money now very much,for although
lectual, and vice versa; then one sary to worship, and all knowl - our lack of civilization and our in- we were again, on account of
may have a strong will, strong or EDGE means the complete abroga- humanity, as well as for our com- delays at the sawmill, obliged to
wait another week before beginning
weak intellect, he very emotional, tion of all worship .
parative height above the savage the framework, yet when we do be­
or stolid as an Indian. Then again
We must always remember that brutes whose lowly place in the gin next Monday we will be obli ged
t he powers of the intellect vary very these characteristics are coupled
scale of life ‘‘inspires” them to wash to hire enough workers to put the
much. Memory may he weak, ob­ with others, some counteracting
away their weaknesses with the building up in a hurry. It will
servation strong, classification al­ and some enhancing them; and
blood of beasts or the blood of take money to pay these workers
most lacking, imagination very act­ that they are coupled with different
saints.
and to buy nails, shingles, doors,
ive,judgment and reason very poor, degrees of the different intellectual
If
we
would
rise
still
higher
window-, etc., etc., We need mon­
or just the opposite.
faculties and powers of the will
above the old brutish wavs, we ey; we want money; we will work
Thus we see theic arc many,
To cultivate and strengthen the must free ourselves from the snares hard to get the money, but we do
many combinations; io fact, there good tendencies, to learn self con- of divine worship and “run with
not love money, and we do not be­
are as many as there are thinking trol, so that the man or woman patience” the true educational race
beings on the earth. No two per-I will have power to prevent the evil which is now, thanks to freedom lieve the old book inspired that
says that the love of money ia the
sons are alike. Perhaps it is im -: ones ruining Ins or her life, and to of thought, set before us.
possible to comprehend the import- train harmoniously the Intellectual
Men, like a loaded carriage,break root of all evil. The old fellow
ance of our inherited characterist- faculties to their fullest capacity, is down at their weakest point. The who wrote that anil thought he was
ICS. Here is one whose whole life certainly the paramount object of carriage may have strong wheels- inspired made a mistake. The
seems wrapped up in gratifying, education, and anything that hin- the reach may be perfect. It may’ truth has waited for us, and we
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some emotion. Perhaps lie is nev- ders this, the oreateot of I I I , h’avl"bein'“ plim.dI “b y *' a m ii’tei U “'? ’, witl,a,,t tha iihado"' of a
er happier than when in a storm of work, is a detriment to the race workman, hut if the axle is poor
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music, or when engaged in exciting and should at once be rooted from
pastime. He may have a strong the soil of hum anity’s garden,
intellect, or a weak one; he may be Such a hindrance is found in all
able to keep his passion for excite-i “revealed” religions.
For those
down goes all together and disaster
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is the result. So it is with the “f all. ev1-and to Plant ln truth tbe
characters of men and women In b,L’B,' l,1g tre e o fk u '>wled8e-
order to pass a successful life one
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ment from ruining him, or he may
go completely insane—an object of
envy, or an object of pity. Here is
one who cares but little to have
these emotions excited, hut perhaps
his main
desire is 1 to feel
,
, that
. . some
.
must be fairly strong at every point,
and il is certain,y wise to give those
upon whom depend the future pros­
perity of the world a systematic
training of all their physical and
mental powers, thus giving them
whose inherited, over-strong emo-
, OU.ld, l>e gorverned by Helf'
control, which can only come from
a freed, a true education, these su-
pernatural, mythical religions only
c ~ ' 1 a spur to drive
. . . them near-
furnish
“God so loved the world” that
almost the first thing be did was to
make a tree with fruit that would
tempt his children, and even train­
ed a naughty snake to talk in or-
der to get them to do wrong. Won-
one loves him, a, d jierhaps hie in .- ,,r and nearer the dark precipice of 11 he ,» „ c r to stand alone, rather, derful!