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T H E TORCH OF REASON, SILV ER TO N , OREGON, D EC EM B ER , 8. 1898.
culed by the clergy for his attem pt
The In s titu tio n of M arriage,
to construct a telegraph.
Roger Bacon, who invented spec-
omen have been the slaves of
tacles and improved the telescope.
an<^ ’n niy judgm ent it took
*
accused
of
having
“sold
him-
«“’Hinnt,
of
ages
for
women
to
come
was
from the condition of abject sJav-
self to the devil”
It is scarcely necessary to recall
UP
^he institution of m ar-
th e persecutions of Copernicus, Bru- r *aBe-
® e 8ay right here th at
no and Galileo, on account of their
regard m arriage as the holiest in-
stitution am ong men. W ithout the
discoveries in astronomy.
To sell property
At Eaton, in Shelley’s tim e, fireside there is no hum an advance
To buy a home
“chem istry was a forbidden thing. »> ment; without the fam ily relation
To go into business
We read in the life of Lock« th at there is no life worth living. E v
“ there was a m eeting of the heads ery good governm ent is m ade up
lo exchange real or personal property
of
good
families.
The
unit
of
good
of the houses of Oxford, where it
Jo work, or to hire workers
was proposed to censure and d is governm ent is the fam ily, and an y
ANYTHING
courage the readirig of this essay thing th at tends to destroy the
[On the H um an U nderstanding], family is perfectly devilish and in
and after various debates it was famous. I believe in m arriage.and
W R IT E T O U S .
W E CAN H E LP YOU
concluded th at without any public I hold in utter contem pt the opin
censure each head of a house should ions o f those long-haired men and
endeavor to prevent its being read short-haired women who denounce
in his own college.”
(Spencer’s the institution of m arriage.
Address, INFORMATION BUREAU
The grandest am bition th a t any
Social Statics, p. 375.)
.. , ,
.
,. I W ater S t r e e t ,
The clergy for years have rid i man can possibly have IS to SO liv e O pposite L iberal Hall,
Silverton, Oregon.
culed D arw inism , and scouted the and to so im prove him self in m ind
philosophy of evolution, even after and heart as to be worthy of the
the best m inds o f Europe had ac love of some splendid woman;
cepted L.
Bui after all their rid i and the grandest am bition of any
cule of D arw ini-m , when Darwin girl is to m ake herself w orthy of
-DEALERS IN-
had passed away the great heart of the love and adoration of some
England did not fail to show the m agnificent m an. T h at is my idea.
esteem in which the people at large There is no success in life w ithout
You had bet
held him, but lovingly laid his re love and m arriage.
mains to rest in W estm inster abbey ter be the em peror of one loving
with the dust o f h e r noblest dead. an(l tender heart, and she the em-
“ W ith resp'-cl to the last, the Pre88 of yours, th an to be king of
grandest of all hum an uudertak- the world. The man who has real-
ings (th a t is the circum navigation ty won the love of one good woman
of the globe), it is to be remember- •" thi» world, 1 do not care if be j Corner M ain and W aU r gtreetg
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cil th at Catholicism had irrevoca- dies in the ditch a beggar, his life
uly com m it h d itse lf to the dogma has been a success.—fR. G. Ingor-
of a fiat earth , with the sky as a 8O^
floor of heaven, and hell in the un
* vd How to Make
der world.”
(D ia p er’s Conflict,
Club Rates.
p. 294.)
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And so gigantic
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in every age has been alm ost uni-
vereal. M illions have professed to
obey the despot who have had no
idea of w hat they were professing,
and hence had nut even so much
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