THE TORCH OF REASON, ^LVEIUÎON. OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1898. iug thn music and elocution pupils, It is not your fault, but n o w v o u r more potent factor in h«» life 11»»» con du ct. D i - .... of nature's between tw enty and tw entv-fiv. atten tio n has been called o h ’ v,....... 11 .d u e« to n he can b i‘ T t «’ ts a dehanee o, students, and our building will la- will act wisely to d r i v ,11 ‘.I , r- • " 1 b ? laW8> h ,K a,‘ ” '»trage upon the Z so full before winter Is over that a - s p i k s o u 7 7 f vour X H L \ ‘f U , ‘" d ' V"h ’al " b" r " !in ~ victims of selfish- will be obliged Io use some of the free. We «re vour friends a I » I I I ” " 'lg ° f a n c *“' , " 1',‘ B h o "*‘r? LnpsK» a n l ' » com m unity, which, lower room s for study rooms. help you all we c u n , a n d when y o n '™ ’ We** i f i ‘ " ' r" rullu-iently im bue,1 with the probabilities are th at he will a knowledge of n a tu ra l law, ordi- Be not deceived; no hum an work fare free, we want you to help un p n rta k e o f their nature. If a child nary kindness, or proper sense of is perfect, but our school contains drive all the witches and angels is horn of a race who have lived by justice, would m ake laws prev en t- the eien.ents of success— it w.lj s u e and g h n ^ fro m the m inds of men j ‘..¡ng and thieving, the chances are Hig irwproper types from perpetuat- Httle B L ll.m e n ^ w ïîro n fv ''re tu rn X i e t'cë’i ’ callin g ’’ 'i t ^ ä v ^ - C " I ‘‘ l T ’ ” bn° r" ’aI th u s and wound th th eir e ir little little m m ental e n ta l legs, legs. I le a n , of of m e”. and wound learn n ' will . teach ‘ I you . . X to’ L X " » '« « • « * l - m ex p en se It wonder why their children are like in building hospitals, ja ils and — say, ‘‘D epart from me, ye accursed neither of them , thinking th at all court-houses, which have to be us- of our fathers, into everlasting children m ust resemble one nr the ed in a large measure for the care A n O p e n L e tte r. darkness to a place prepared hv other of their parents. This ignor- of the m oral m onstrosities horn of Silverton, Oregon, / Secularism for the devil and his ance is a proof of how little they such abnorm al parentage. Instead Oct. 10, 1898 After Christ. \ a ngels.” have thought on the reproduction of m aking reproduction a subject D ear C h r is t ia n :— Good bye. We hope you will of the race, and shows also th at of scientific investigation and pre- \ o u said in vours of the 1st inst. 1 . ,i ~ , , ‘ ■ take no offense at w hat we have tliey do not u n d erstand the sim- paration, it is left to instictive ac- t h a t \<>u do not believe in witches, _ • « f , . . el.................. . , ’ , sa,,l< f" r lt. IH ” u r h,>nw,t °P ,n,On- plest law or principle in connection tion, as with the beasts of the field, and you ridiculed the idea, but do Y ours for Progress, therew ith. \\ bile a man will m ake I or, worse still, to the abnorm al op- you not know th at the unholy book ! S ecular J o h n , , efforts t<> trace the pedigree of a eration of the physically depraved you call th e holy bible is the only I t h e D e v il - H a t e r . horse which lie is about to pur- organism s with which society one in use in civilized countries chase, and insist th a t it shall he , abounds. An enlightened ami con- th a t teaches that, there are such free from vices and had blood, he seientious person would endeavor beings, and also com m ands th at H ered ity . will at the sam e time take a wo to select for a com panion one whose people shall not suffer a witch to man in m arriage w ithout even in qualifies of m ind and body (in Selected and revised for th e Torch live. Think of thtL terrible m ental of R eason. 1 quiring w hether her parents or com bination with his own) would and physical suffering th a t this one u n h o ly s ta te m e n t fro m v o u r d re a m ‘A man finds room in the few s q u a r e g ran d p aren ts were insane, scrofu assist in the elevation and perfec hook of Witches an d ghosts has ° ' h‘" lous, epileptic, consum ptive or idi tion of the race, thus obviating the otic. If the results of his m arriage necessity of m ain tain in g the °va>t caused. j v . , * E very b irth is a hygienic regenera- of professional tinkers IOU sa y you believe in a n g e ls , tio n . T he c o n stitu tio n a l defects w hich should prove disastrous, and a fam- arm ies «»v • «*«v- udiir’iiiii io m e ir on- ilv of foolish, scrofulous or vicious which abound in every com m unity, Well, p erh ap s the belief in angels sp rin g are m odified by th e bequest of an m ake their appearance, he will, if Is a child born diseased in his does less harm th an the belief in older w o rld .” —O sw ald. he be a religious m an, a ttrib u te physical n atu re? — straig h tw ay a witches, but it does great harm , “ T e cannot gather grapes from this dire calam ity to the will of his medical tinker is hired to endeavor neverthele»». I. ,s a great black ,horn8 nor „ from , hig th a a t t lor for a a ‘ wise wise and and to patch up the defect. I h one born lie. 1 here are no sucn things as o u i h god, and state m angels, and an d besides besides the th e great , re a l harm h . n „ “ a pnrrrpt ” a " . d . • < t " , ^ " 1 v " “ > *“ » " • ''« » « ««*>- | I inbCrutable inscrutable purpose” purpose” he be has has been bee,, m entally w e a k ? — he is given in angels, th a t all such superstitious ideas do, „.jn , '° n °r . na «7* I to vds’1 bim with this afflic- charge of a teacher of imbeciles. Is it has the tendency of keeping p e o -¡shn„ L ° hVHvo' a t 1 8 ‘ ® tion, never for a m om ent endeavor- he horn m entally unbalanced? — pie from in v estig atin g the real frn i i<5 . great a v ariet> °U ing to trace these effects to their then a theological tinker is called causes of things. ' ,’,rna,J )ein£8 i cause. Not so would this sam e upon to try to rem edy by “ regener- You believe th a t angels have tf " P * 1* 1 * « » " • » reason if the horse turned a .io n ” the “ sins of the fathers Wings \ w X n k hard or a few d T "“ X '° H e which are visited upon the chil- n ,u u ch aracter as the men and | would accuse Ihe dealer of dishon- dren tc the th ird and fourth gener minutes. they have wings they women who in te rm a rry . The law es.y, an d would know .h a t .he p e d -; a d o n s T * must be attach ed to a body and this body m ust he in the shape of a hum an being, for of course it would be absurd J i h i n k of them aU ach- t of inherited q u a lity and ch aracter i igree of the horse w hs not ret re s l t i is nerhans the n i t Hiffinnk Q i . 7 , L 1 ' Such a stdte of g r a v i t y ought ¡com plex hart of n r o r a f t ‘ I — ’ a ,< i 1 *tS p are“ tage was I " “t iu the present general diffusion vestigate a",d n ro v e " S t l b re e d ' X T ° ' h? d So blind-1 of knowledge to exist. Society as ed to nothing, or to any o ther th an ¡„g on scientific principles as it ar ’ suP*r s ," 1° " a n a 'gnorance now constructed is o n th e m o s te x - heS^ctic- „LZX a h u m an b o d y - s u c h as a dog, „r a baa been and is noX .X " £ I X T X T " P,a " cat, or a monkey. T his bodv m ust ed on an extended a n d i n tp l l ia p n t t r • ^ c tr tif ic th a t it is possible to conceive, Iie- be dressed or undressed and either e d n ♦ ,e breedln8 >» regard to the rearing cause cultivated and inherited self- w a a ifg / r o el u tak e e H X p'» T y ^ ' X are in th e breeding ¡» is the basis it; and thia an fa th r th it an is a v e p n i , r absurd e t i X X , 1 ’ U '" I " ,Ptllf*>9 " cm : m 't C hildren’ th eir induence tra '-e it s is s fostered and of increased by an a.igei u u n . m a n a p u rely hu- and tee laws observed in im p ro v -! of cattle .u ir • • L. L m an one w ithout wings) in pants, j na the v irions rare« n f » n i m Ola ' i i , ' vicious public opinion which bloomers or petticoats is enough to which are under cultivation ' Ignorance and selfishness a re , teaches v irtu ally th at a m an is het- drive an a rtis t wild, and one with- These sam e laws nut in onera ! ; reP’odl,c,ng their own ter in pnqiortion to th e am ount of out any clothing is enough to shock tio n w illp ro d i.e e sim ilar res., la in ! X T X *'*'e n t d '’ ,he8e " " " 'O ' hfi can 8e t> "« d »hie leads even a m ethodis. preacher. L u k ’ nd fiw m an 1 an a , m n’ t “ " n " im a" ,aSe me" a " d “ > ' " - O mon- tl .u- u f 1 1 arn 8urPri8ed at the num ber of ey w ithout regard to th eir fitness The, th in k o f he wings. A ,e m any degrees removed from the decent people there are in exist- for parentage It leads also to hey attach ed to the body with a next lower m am m al; and when hu- ence. Ignorance is in some sort an dense ignorance- for all the now ball-and-socket p an t? Have the m an, ty is sufficiently developed in excuse, hut in these days of gen- ers of m ind and body being h e n t X wings the hum erus, the ulna, the wisdom, justice, and true tru e religion, eral eral scientific scientific knowledge k n o w le d a e so m e I...H_____ ________ _ ■ n some indi- acquisition, the m ind . is 8 draw radius and phalanges the same as a we shall be able to im prove the viduals are responsible for the mis- away from the study of the n atu ra l bird’s wing? H ave they veins, and race upon scientific principles, and era hie failures in the form of chil- sciences, and men and women are would they bleed if punctured? create higher types of men and wo- dren which one finds in everv com- lienee very ig n o ran t of them selves Have these wings feathers, or are men un a basis which shall bring m u n ity . Selfishness m ust he the and of the laws which govern th eir they like b a ts’ wings? I th in k I forth more perfect specimens, and ru lin g motive, since men knowing- being. This knowledge is the very hear you say, ” 1 d o n ’t know". No, more satisfactory, th an are now lv perpetuate vicious and sickly first step tow ard a righteous life, you do not know, because there is produced under the instinctive types, sim ply to gratify them selves for no one can do right while igno r no such an im al in existence, except m ethod, which is the only one em- in th e possession of a certain wo an t of the laws of m ind and hodv. in the m inds of the ignorant. Yes, ployed by m an and anim als, except m an, or for m ercenary motives. I of those other m atters which ignorant. You m ay he inform ed in those cases w here men use their am inform ed th at a certain honor- and influence greatly m ental and phys- on als . able sen ato r of one of our western ¡cal well-being. The m aioritv of • some , subjects, hut if . you believe . , r reason 1 in the selection of anim --------- . g°, ’ -'ol' a re , .I8n,’r»n( of for the purpose of im proving them states had horn to him several cbil- people are far more ignorant of toe irn in as th a t «id Irish C atholic by a judicious m ingling of forms dren by an insane wife after she their own physiques th a^ tbev are lady we m -t over on the coast who and faculties. had been pronounced incurable. I of the n a.tire'and laws of J . n i n e X t X, " m » .eves in witches ami ghosts., I he inherited nature of man is a fail to see the will of a g.«f in such ¡or of fashionable amusement,.