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T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON , A P R IL 13, 1899
F o r th e T orch of P w m m .
RIGHT
LIVING
duplicate any of the living pro­
For the Torch of Rew»"»-
cesses of nature by artificial m eans, A Protest A gainst the W ar
Easy Lessons in Philosophy.
A gainst th e Filipinos.
he is certainly following an ignis
BY C H A R LES C LA R K M IL L A R D .
fatuus; if he expects to m ake a
BY B. F . UN DERW OO D.
¡cell, he m ight try his hand at an
III.
apple or a blade of grass. Science
As an Am erican, interested in
Cells are the u n its of an im al life. (^ sc,,vers ancj explains phenom ena;
whatever relates to the welfare ot
x ma«8 of cells, or of stuff being it can do nothing m o re , for the
the Am erican Republic; as a Free­
formed into cells, is called proto- good and sufficient reason th at thinker, interested in w hatever re ­
IS A BOOK OF
plasm. A cell can be seen by the there is nothing more to be done
lates to the cause of intellectual
aid of a microscope of high m agni­ except to dream , speculate or im ­
freedom, and as a m an interested
. who is free in w hatever concerns the well-be­
fying power, and is found to be a ^ agine.
1UC. No
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scientist
highly-organized, m inute a n im a l- from superstition is seeking or ex- ing of m ankind, I wish to record
The water in a sta g n a n t pond is pecting
..
. to find “ “ *>
th - a t inexplicable my protest against the present w ar
full ofx these cell anim als, and Som ething which th e scientist of the U nited States against the
every part of anim al tissue (e x ­ th in k s is power and th e theist calls people of the P u ilip p in e arch i­
cepting the solid part of bones, G od.” All intelligence is in some­
pelago.
teeth, hair and nails) is composed thing which is intelligent. The
It is, in my opinion, a most u n ­
On th e follow ing and
of living cells “ essentially the knowledge which enables the cell righteous w ar— the greatest crim e
k in d red S u b jects:
same’’ as those found living inde­ to run its own m achinery is in the
of the century.
pendent in th e pond water.
cell; it does not come from a n y ­
The Filipinos have done nothing
In the “ L iterary Digest” of March where. I t is developed, created on to justify this invasion of their S e lf C o ntrol
11th are extracts from an article the spot from th e m aterials at country, and there is no reason or
S e lf R esp ect
on “ The Physical Basis of Life,” by han d , ju s t as the drops of dew and excuse for our slaughtering them
Prof. W. H. Conn, from which I the spears of grass are created.
by thousands on the pretext of W h a t is M o ra * lity
gather some interesting facts about
R ight in this line of thought are m ain tain in g order.
W h a t is Ignorance
the cell, which are indicated in the some statem ents of the Rev. Dr.
We have disregarded their as­
following by quotation m arks. The H enry F ran k , widely known as a pirations for self-governm ent and Fraud a C rim e
cell is globular in form and con­ theologian and psychologist, in the m urdered them ruthlessly because
H a b it, 2 n d N a tu re
tains a cen tral substance called a Chicago T ribune of recent date. they loved th eir country and dared
nucleus, and about tw enty different He says: “ The soul is in the hand to resist our sovereignty over them , P o liten ess
parts or organs adapted each to all; just as much as in the head, and in a sovereignty transferred to us by
M is d o m
and
it is ju st - as com plete
and in- th e foot ju st as m uch as in the S ia m which we had no right to re­
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lependent in its m ental c^ arac^er »band.” If by soul he m eans intel- ceive, because Spain was th eir op­
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as it is in its physical form an d or­ ligence, or w hat is intelligent, Dr. pressor from whom they had nearly
ganization. “ W hen th e cell is in F ran k is evidently c o rr e c t. “ It is won t heir independence when Dewey
One of these c h ap te rs is
sailed
into
M
anila
Bay.
action, the centrosom e sends out not tru e th a t the nervous system
W o rth m ore to both
The fundam ental principle of the
Young and old th a n the
rods or fibres from itself; these rods gets all its orders from the b ra in .” American Republic is th a t all just
Price of th e book.
seize the bits of ch ro m atin, pull C ertainly it is not, for every cell governm ents derive th eir au th o rity
them around into new positions, and organ can, an d does, act inde­ from the consent of the governed.
separating them from each other, pendently on its own au th o rity This principle we have disregarded
. . . IT SH LLP BE IN . .
in our war for the subjugation of
and sometimes actu ally pushing more or less of th e time. There is
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an Asiatic people 10,000 miles from
some of them out of the cell for the no individual soul; when life passes ()Ur heat of governm ent.
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Ln soul I re
rP1.
Amiii»inan G
filVPl
purpose of getting rid of them . the
The American
governm
ent has
force known .io
as ♦ the
killed
thousands
of
innocent
people,
The centrosom e acts alm ost like an tu rn s to the p aren t force from
women and children as well as
engineer, and seems to be the con­ whence it sp ran g .”
men, and burned, pillaged and
trolling center of the complex m a­
indi (leVaStatej a vaKt territo ry osten-
I agree th a t there is no indi-
chine.”
vidual soul, hut not th a t force and gibj y t<> pregerve order, but really
a n d re c e iv e a
“ All of the parts are adjusted to soul mean the sam e. If force is to gain possession of d ista n t islands
n e a tly c lo t h -
each other and act in harm ony, the “ cause of m otion,” it is nothing to m ake them a p a rt of our national b o u n d c o p y , p ost p a id .
and the life activities are the re­ else,
1 onlv
l
a push n or r » a m
p u i l n l - , it
it is
is dom
. ain. Could there be a greater
su ltan t of the action of th e m a­ neither intelligence nor soul. Forcej
A G E N T S W ANTEG .
waH c| e a riy t he du ty of the
chine. It is true th a t not all types returns to force, and it is one and United States, having com pleted
of living m atter are q u ite as com ­ not m an y ; and when used in the the fre dom of the Philippines
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plicated, but in all there is found, p lu ral it m eans p arts of the same from Spanish rule, to assist the
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neoulc in organizing such a govern-
in a sim ilar way, a com plex m a­ thing.
I he force th a t operate» th e I P
degired and lo w itb .
chine with p a rt adjusted to p a rt.”
O regon
cell, or the h u m an brain an< j raw j lB naval and m ilitary forces, S ilverton
Professor Conn m akes clear what nerves, comes from the sam e source, ieavjng the F ilipinos to govern
other scientists hove pointed out is of the same k in d , and is as de- them selves in their own way.
more or less p lain ly — th a t the one void of intelligence as th a t which
The religious press and clergy
S ix Tracts to Promote
celled organism carries his in te lli­
draw s a street ea r, holds a stone
q(. gubj u g atiOo, be-
gence rig h t along with him. He together, or sends the ea rth w hirl-
J
th in k it will give them
calls the cell “ a living m achine,” ing around the sun. H erbert
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f iggionary con. V t/icdnlT ,
¿-„a l,ie (o ,„ ake ^ , 1Tertg W 1SOOIT1
but what m ore is an y other anim al Spencer in “ F irs t P rinciples,” to » »e
I ransform a- a' t home am<(Ilg el,lightened people,
or m an th an a self-acting, self-re­ the ch ap ter on the
In Place of Christianity:
tion of Forces, proves th is beyond
J
Hke all form s of slave
pairing, feeling and knowing m a­
doubt or question, and I believe it d
a „ xiou. ,„ r fields i„ 1 , Can Sms
O1J1„ be
„ r Forgiven?
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chine? T he cell is th e sam e, but has never been controverted by
skeptical inquiry and knowl- 2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil-
there is no engineer in the cell, for any scientist of in tern atio n a repu-
„.¡u nol ¡m pCde th e ir progress.
ization?
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Religion
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Science
More
Reliable?
the cell is its own engineer; the
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4 u Evolution
and Comparison
of - Religions.
centrosome only perform s its p art o f “ a force w h ic h is th e soul and SOVtTtilgiivV
« h))w
m'W can
ban we
v» ever a g a in -x
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Prof.
Conn
w
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of
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discovering
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of
Paine,
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Does
Belief
in
Miracles
Benefit?
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Paine,
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Belief
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s its forces,” th e -le a rn e d gentlem en are Muote
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Adam s, F ran k . lin
and , H an- « 6 _____
Immortality
art, moved and controlled by the a(lhering to erro r wben the tru th is
cock in favor of A m erican inde-
ju st T H E T H IN G
rhole organism . As Prof. Conn know n. I refer any who m ay
per.dence?
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’8, “ the life activities,” m ental doubt the intelligence of the cell to .
ays,
to hand to your Christian friends. Send
“ The Psychology of M icro-organ-
Back of th is brutal war agai
2 cents for ft, or ft cents for 25 tracts,
s well as physical,
pi.ysicui, “ are the re- ¡g„ g ,> h ? Alfred B inet
the people of the P hilippines is the
to E liza M owry B liven , Brook­
allant of the action of th e ma- i s m s b y Allred ti net
I 1( C(,mniercialigm> the sel-
lyn, Conn., or send 10 cents
for 50, either kind or as­
anistn. ^ “C ertain it i / t h a t the -
to
sorted kinds, to
S ix ty
E x c e lle n t
C h a p te r s
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