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Torch of Reason
THE TORCH OE REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, APRIL 13, 1899.
Into another nod know ol htovto- can easily be lured to play the star- by circumstances to ply the trade
tiw’s thought?.
in-the-eaet act and herald the won- of wholesale murder.
War is never a good thing. To
It is fully lime this superstition der. The forerunners on crutches
The O nly P ap er of Its Kind.
eave way to our established science can easily get fabulous stories of be sure it may, like the surgeon’s
knife, prevent the further growth
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psychology, and people poor in healing started, and then, ho, for
of some cancerous condition like
P v e rtirC o n ^ a n y , ” >
In tere sts of
the faculty of reasoning ceased to the harvest! The healer coines^
slavery, hut higher civilization now
C onstructive, Moral Secularism .
b© hombugged.
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There a true science of m ind- ; prices charged for exam ination-. demands preventative treatment
instead of neglect, inflammation,
J. E . H o s m e r,......................... Editor reading, of which it is a great pity The forerunners, who, of course, are
amputation and the resulting crip­
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pled conditions. There are but
little. This true science is neg- j healed, and, throwing away their few who can realize the evil results
Entered at the postoffice at Silverton,
atl(l becau8e of> t he super- crutches, go on their way rejoicing.
of war. Compared with what we
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stitio u s nonsense p o p u la rly called This sets the converts wild, and the
mind-reading, and it is the duty of money pours in. Of course there might be physically, mentally and
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every one who lias a torcli or a are a few found who are incurable, morally, we are mere pigmies; and
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“touch” of reason to let its light 1 but thia only makes the dupes how much of our degeneracy is on
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hn«»n thaii* OQ aoa account of the wars of our fore­
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whine upon these subjects until the more eager to have their cases fathers? These wars may have
In clubs of five or m ore, one year,
bénéficient effects of the true sci- tested.
Not long ago thousands and been necessary concomitants of our
M oney should be sent by registered , ence may he enjoyed by all.
thousands of dollars were taken past growth, but as we come nearer
le tte r or m oney order.
The mind, according to our best
from the citits of the Western to a perfect civilization the in­
modern students of psychology, Slope in just this way, and still centives for labor will not be greed,
Notice!
consists of knowing, feeling and the good work goes on all over the and the objects which are used to
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WIl****g. Can
v,«.. - knowing
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are so fast to patronize these hum­ and the necessary power which
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You are earnestly requested to r e - , gay th a t o n e ’s feelings can go
bugs and so slow to recognize and comes to those who conquer will
a b o u t from place to place or th a t
iew so th a t you may ret‘^ / e
patronize the efforts io cure the not be gained by the murder of our
lout interruption.
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>er w ithout
in te rru p tio n , v\e nave ue
jided th a t it is l>est for all concerned s o m e of h is k n o w in g f a c u ltie s , s u c h world of the dread diseases known fellow men.
that we do not send papers longer th a n as m em o ry , classific atio n , ju d g m e n t
In regard to the settling of dis­
as ignorance and superstition from
th e tim e paid for unless so ordered.
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This will prevent any loss and we will o r reason can separate themselves
which spring most of our mental putes and the punishment of crime,
know just where we stand.
from his brain and enter the head
and physical disorders? In Christ’s what is true of small communities
We
send us th e nam es 1
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of Secularists who m ight become su b ­ of a friend. The wink of one’s eye time it was very easy to deceive ! is true of nations. Now, in the
scribers and we will m ail sam ple copies is not an entity that can leave its
the people, for the nature of dis­ pioneer days of a country lynch
organ, and neither is the knowing,
ease, tiie circulation of the blood,« law may, under some condition-,
T H U R S D A Y , A P R IL 13, E. M . 299 feeling or willing of the brain
the cause of nervous disorders and be necessary, hut as soon as courts
which was involved in producing
even the composition and nature of can be established lynch law disap­
M in d R e a d in g an d M a g ic
the wink.
the most common foods were not pears, and finally, when schools in­
H e a lin g .
“ How, then,” says our credulous
crease and knowledge of justice
friend, who has seen wonderful known.
But it seems as though the world and right is disseminated, even
Many things which have been things done by the fake mind-
ought to wake up soon, and we be­ courts are but little used. \\ ar is
called frauds have afterwards be­ readers of our time, ‘‘do you ac
lieve it will. The stories about the lynch law of uncivilized na­
come sciences. In fact, there is no count for such and such lb vs 1
Jesus’ wonderful mir.d-reading and tions. It is time courts of arbitra­
science which has not been tested
on such and such
magic healing have been so persist­ tion be established among the
>y the fire of ignorance, prejudice lcaflion?’> Well, we haven’t time to
ently pounded into the minds of Anglo Saxon races, that the world
ind religious fanaticism.
explain every trick every trickster children, who are now adults, that
may the sooner learn the lessons of
On the other hand, there have ever played along this line, and it is easy for such who have never peace and become civilized. With
been many—very many—things probably couldn’t if we tried; suf­ had the opportunity to read a our great country filled with peace­
which were thought to he true, hut fice it to say, that we are fully Freethought paper nor hear a Lib­ ful, industrious, inventive people,
vhich afterwards proved to be false “persuaded in our mind-»” that eral lecture to still he misled. But
we need not fear invasion from any
ird were obliged, after doing much they can all he easily explained in the followers of the ancient and country, even if we had not a single
njury to our race, to give place to such a way as to make the “be­ modern “great physicians” are
warship or murderous gun. And
lie truth. This being the case, lievers” wonder how they could losing their power fast, for our even if some nation was foolish
one is very foolish to oppose with­ have been so foolishly deceived bv modern literature, our modern ways enough to bombard and even cap­
out reason or to accept any theory these money-making tricks. Men of travel and communication, and ture a few of our coast cities before
as true on the mere say-so of those of science, and the good they d<>, ’ our modern Freethought, which we could prepare for defense, the
brougbt abont g-nce , he
whose interest it is to have people suffer very much from ih.se pre- h#a
loss would be much less than the
believe” or from the weak tosti-, lender».
adoption of the first amendment to enormous cost of life, labor and
nony of what might be tricks of a
What can doctors, win. are care-
e()n8(itution of , his great re. wealth of the continual prepara­
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Our only guide should be our for mankind as long as the people u<un
voice„ of tfuth tQ
would probably never come.
■eaaon, backed by the established | will run wild over the wonderful
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deve|op;ng the
It is easy for lawyers, who feel so
«fences, and our minds should \ tomfoolery of some great mind- facll|tv of retfion) and thi6 golden
never accept a thing as being true reader or some great Herman the crown wi„ BOOn be_ ah> ¡g n„w be. disposed, to encourage quarrels
until reason has had a chance to Healer? If one has talent, is a
Qn thg br()w of tri. that they may reap a rich harvest
of fees, and so it is for those who
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*lon 1 umphant humanity. Science, the have the millions and the political
From a thought comes our every care much how he makes money as
whoge
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needs
rction, and thus at the end of long as he gets it, he can let Ins
crQwn ug I( power to sit in their mansions and
‘very line of action is the true in-| hair grow long, mortgage the little
the roya, diftdeIn 3end the poor hoys to the front to
fe, of the corresponding thought; home the old folks earned for him j {
an(, orown UB |ordg of tight, kill and murder their neigh­
boring nation’s boys. There is no
md if one is skilled in reading and invest the proceeds as follows: j „
good coming from war or no ex­
this index he can know something Get four or five men who can be * ‘
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cuse that can be offered in its de­
of the thought, and thus know the bought cheap these times; send
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fense that could not be equally
general character of those with them into a city where they will
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whom he comes in contact. But limp around with rheumatism,
\\ ar is bad. Its effects are very given by banditti. Pirates could
remembering that the mind is not white swellings, general debility, bad, and the use of it for purposes argue that the people whom they
»n entity hut the manifestation of etc., etc., for several weeks. Some of greed, like priestcraft, is damn- rob are ignorant and making wrong
he matter of which the brain is of them must have crutches and all j able. We do not say it to Hatter use of their property; they could
composed, we must not l>e lead into of them must he in a very had way. or fool those who have fought or say that bv capturing a vessel and
u n i t i n g that
w a v «»t.v
Kv.ow.., no mat-
...... Now, after they have been seen of those who are fighting, but we compelling the owners to serve
thinking
one person,
er how “strong-minded,” can with all men, it is time for the great really do have the kindest feelings them that the captured ones need
►linded eyes look with hi? mind healer to come. The newspapers | toward those who have been forced to be educated. But might does