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VOL. 3.
R eason .
SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1899.
NO. 23.
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every man must pass is a miniä- demon night, fighting against day­ and became a cherubim to guard
ture representation of the progress light and darkness at war; dark the plant and keep the way of life.
by W. F . DENTON.
of life on the planet. The inten­ night contending against the light With the Babylonians the tree was
guarded by two Genii, while with
of the sun.
tion in both cases is the same.
WILL not bow to a titled knave,
The scinces, therefore, join with
This was the source of good and j the Accadians, as with the He­
\o r crouch to a lordly priest;
evil, gods and devils, in all the brews, it was typical of knowledge.
A martyr’s torments I’d rather history in affirming that the great
aim of nature is intellectual im­ ancient religions; it was day and In the inscriptions of Chaldea this
brave,
Than he of my manhood fleeced.
provement. They proclaim that night at war. In all its original tree is represented with fruit on it,
I’ll liend my knee to no fancied god,
the successive stagP3 of every indi­ childish simplicity this pagan myth a woman reaching out her hand to
I’ll fear no ghost so wan,
vidual, from its earliest rudiment survives and today permeates and pluck the fruit, a serpent behind
Erect and free I’ll stand on the sod,
And act as becomes a man.
to maturity—the numberless or­ controls the Hebrew and Christian her and a man at her side. The
ganic beings now living contempo­ religions. The average Christian inscriptions give the name of the
I’ll pin my faith to no bigot’s sleeve;
I’ll swallow no griping creed ;
raneously with us and constituting of today, while he does not know’ man as Admi, or, as some have
I’ll ask my Reason what to l>elieve,
the animal series—the orderly ap­ it, is calling on, and praying to, rendered it, Admu. It was em­
And ever her answer heed.
pearance of that grand succession our great solar orb to overthrow blematic of earth and water, or, as
I’ll hide no truth in a coward heart
The world would lx? blest to know;
which, in the slow lapse of time, the dark night. The forbidden some contend, the heavens and the
My boldest thought as it wills impart,
has emerged—all these three great fruit, as we now learn from the in­ earth, the source of life, the sun
\o r check the mind’s onward flow.
lines of the manifestation of life scriptions taken from the ruins of pouring his rays on the moist earth
I’ll love the true, I will do the right,
furnish not only evidences, but also Egypt and Chaldea, was but em­ and producing life. It represented
Ruled only by reason’s sway,
Let all do so; and the world’s dark night proof of the dominion of law. In blematic of man’s desire for knowl­ the fructifying, the fecundating
Will melt into rosy day,
all the general principle is to dif­ edge* his efforts to learn the .truth | principle. With the Egyptians
—[Secular Songs.
ferentiate instinct from automa­ concerning nature and nature’s 1 Apah, the serpent, makes war on
tism, and then to differentiate in­ laws. The priest, speaking through the sun god Ra, and is killed by a
The Object of Development.
telligence from instinct. In man his gods, forbids m^n the right to dagger in the hands of the god. It
BY JO H N W . D R A P E R .
himself the three distinct modes of learn the truth; he tells his votaries is the old myth, light fighting dark­
life occur in an epochal order that knowledge is dangerous; that ness. In the 39th chapter of the
HEN we look at the suc­ through childhood to the most per­ they must not read books pub­ Book of the Dead (one of Egypt’s
cessive phases ot indi­ fect state. And this holding good lished by skeptics and scientists; sacred books) a desperate conflict
vidual life, what is it for the individual, since it is phy­ that ignorance is the road to sal­ is represented between light and
that we find to be their chief char­ siologically impossible to separate vation; that if man persists in darkness. The whole story told in
acteristic? Intellectual advance­ him from the race, what holds studying nature, reading works of the Bihlp, when read hy the light,
ment. And we cousider that ma­ good for the one must also hold science, eating forbidden fruit, the of these ancient records, appears,
turity is reached when intellect is good for the other. Hence man is gods will drive him from the gar­ most clearly, to have been bor­
at its maximum. The earlier truly the archetype of society. His den of happiness. The cherubim, rowed from them. By a compar­
stages are preparatory; they are development is the model of social with the flaming sword, which the ison of the Hebrew sacred scrip­
Hebrews borrowed from the Egyp­ tures with the deciphered hiero­
wholly subordinate to this.
progress.
If the anatomist be asked how
What, then, is the conclusion in­ tians, was emblematic of nature glyphics of Egypt and the cuni-
the human form advances to its culcated by these doctrines as re­ standing sentinel to prevent mao form characters of Chaldea, It will
highest perfection, he at once dis­ gards the social progress of great from returning to a state of child­ be seen that most of the Hebrew
Bible is but a copy from the myths
regards all the inferior organs of communities? It is that all politi­ ish ignorance.
of those countries, principally from
which it is composed and answers cal institutions—imperceptibly or
How transparent is all this; it is Egypt. Soft G erald Massey’s “ Book
that it is through provisions in its visibly, spontaneously or purposely
the everlasting, persistent strife of of Beginnings.” Mr. Massey fur­
nervous structure for intellectual —should tend to the improvement
the priesthood to keep man ignor­
improvement; that in succession it and organization of national intel­ ant and religious that they may nishes us with a long list of Egyp­
passes through stages analagous to lect.—[Intellectual Development of live and fatten on the toil of others. tian myths running parallel, or, as
we say in law, on all fours, with
those observed in other animals in Europe.
With the Hindus, Yiema commits every important feature in the so-
the ascending scale, but in the end
the first sin, is driven from the called Mosaic account of creation
it leaves them far behind, reaching
The Fall of the First Man.
garden and falls into the hands of and the flood, also in the story of
a point to which they never attain.
Angromainyus, the evil one.
the Exodus.
BY P A R IS H B. LA D D .
The rise in organic development
In the Vendidad, we read Ahur-
The six days of creation, the rest
measures intellectual dignity.
amazda
accuses
Argromainyus
of
on the seventh, and the six days’
ITH all of the ancient re­
In like manner *the physiologist,
ligious older than the enticing man from good to evil. A flight from Egypt and the rest the
considering the vast series of ani­
Hebrew, tradition as­ similar legend comes from Scan­ seventh are identical with the
mals now’ inhabiting the earth with
us, ranks them in the order of their cribed to the first pair purity, hap­ dinavia, where the immortal Id- flight of the god Typhon in the
hunna, in paradise, is enticed by Egyptian myth. Typhon, like
intelligence. He shows that their piness and eternal life; these bless­
nervous mechanism unfolds itself ings were lost by disobeying the Locki, the evil one, to eat the for­ Moses and Christ, traveled on the
bidden fruit; having transgressed, back of an ass. After a most
upon the same plan as that of injunction of the gods not to eat
by eating the apple, he is carried thorough research we fail to find
man, and that as its advancement forbidden fruit.
any credible evidence to sustain
The belief in an age of eternal off by Locki.
in this uniform and predetermined
With the Hindus this forbidden any p art of the Hebrew story of
direction is greater, so is the po­ happiness before man committed
the first sin was, says Lenormant, fruit wras the soma plant, which the Exodus. Moses, Aaron, Joshua,
sition attained to higher.
The geologist declares that these in his “ Beginnings of History,” gave an intoxicant and drove all and Gideon were, in all probability,
conclusions hold good in the his­ common among all the Aryan peo­ care away; in time it was wor­ myths.
It is now conceded by all schol­
tory of the earth, and that there ples. Ewald tells us that this tra­ shipped as a god. This god with
the
Greeks
become
Dionysos;
in
ars that the Hebrew account of the
has been an orderly improvement dition was adopted by the Hebrews
Egypt
he
was
Bacchus.
Garuda
creation and flood, including all of
in intellectual power of the beings into their system as it appears in
having
recovered
this
plant
from
the fabulous stories contained in
that have inhabited it successively. their Genesis. In all the ancient
the
demons,
who
stole
it,
gave
it
the so-called five books of Moses,
It is manifested by their nervous systems evil was represented by a
systems. He affirms that the cycle serpent, who was the fallen angel, back to the gods; for this pious act
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of transformation through which the personification of darkness; the Garuda was given a flaming sword
The Freeman’s Resolution.
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