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T ob cn of R eason . SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1899. VOL. 3. NO. 24. rected and strengthened by intelli constituted which contemplates the The innkeepers of Palermo obey gent intercourse; they can advance progress of human knowledge as a their church and spite heretics by only by degrees—can attain to no matter of regret or fear? The wid selling meat in June, but not in SERVICE. Small service is tru e service w hile it state of knowledge hut by a pro er the diffusion of knowledge, the March. The innkeepers of El Me Insts * Of friends, how ever h u m b le , scorn no t gression more or less slow. After better the people are informed, the dina spite unbelievers and honor many defective attempts they are more they undeistand— the more the Koran by selling meat in one: . The daisv, bv th e shadow th a t it casts, Protects th e lingering dew d ro p from enabled to distinguish, by com likely they are to see and compre March, but not in June. The the sun. —[W ordsw orth. parison, that which is well or ill of hend what is for their good, and Buddhist innkeepers of Lassa sell of every kind; so that what is call the means by which that good is to only salt meat, imported from LIFE. ed an art is but the result of reas be attained, the more likely they China, and spite Infidels by refus We live in deeds, n o t y e a r s ; in th o u g h ts, on and experience reduced to a are to abstain from such means as ing to kill a cow under any cir not b r e a t h ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. method. Whatever savors of relig would be prejudicial in their oper cumstances. But Sicilians, Thi We should co u n t tim e by h e a rt-th ro b s . ious superstition, either in the arts ation, and calculated rather for the betans and Arabs would agree that He m ost lives Who th in k s m o st; feels th e n o b le st; or in speculative science, can only prevention than the attainment of no innkeeper should be permitted acts th e best. —[Bailey. sebserve the purpose of their re that good.—[Occasional Thoughts. to spite a personal enemy by salt ing his meat with arsenic. Na striction, and impede their course PERSUASION. tions that totally disagree in their The reason Justice. There is a wav of w inning, m ore bv love, and their progress. notions of propriety, in matters of And urging of th e modteety, th a n fe a r; why the sciences have not advanc- IN FIVE PARTS. Force works on servile n a tu re s, not th e taste and in their bias of religious ed more is that scholars have been free. — [Jo n so n . prejudice will, nevertheless, be afraid to depart from the ideas en BY F. L. OSWALD. found to agree on the essential tertained by the schools, lest they THE TOUCH OF TIME. standards of humanity and jus T im e ’s g radual touch should sacrifice their prospects or PART I,----LESSONS OF INSTINCT. Has m ouldered in to b e au ty m any a draw down upon them the ire of tice. The “instinct of equity,” as tow er ORAL philosophers have Leibnitz calls the sense of natural W hich when it frow ned.w ith all its b a t old-fashioned professors; and if a tlem en ts long conjectured the dis justice, has been still better de man dare to advance a sentiment Was only te rrib le . So creeds th a t once tinction between natural fined as the “instinct of keeping Shook m onarchs on th e ir th ro n e , c ru m with regard to morals or religion ble to form at variance with the doctrines and conventional duties, and only contracts.” A state of Nature is Our c h ild re n ’s gam es. T h e B eautiful whipped into his grandfather a the full recognition of that dis- not always a state of equal rights. an d T rue Live th ro u g h all th e ages, w hile th e hundred and fifty years ago, it is distinction can reconcile the con Skill, strength and knowledge en False dies o u t. —M oore. immediately said: “He is wise be flicting views on the natural basis joy the advantage of superior ethics. On the other hand, the power in the form of manifold yond what is written,” and he is VANITY OF PRAYER. We deem th is life too narrow for our represented as that terrible mon defenders of the theory of “Intui privileges, but the expediency of needs, tive morality” claim the existence “keeping contracts” naturally re And so dem and h e a v e n ’s high felicity. ster—an Infidel. Y et of an after-life w hat sign have we? While authority, prejudice and of an innate moral conscience com commends itself as the only safe In vain m an pravs and tells his futile power have pertinaciously contend mon to all nations and all stages of basis of social intercourse. Those beads. * —M a rtin . ed that it is necessary to restrict social development, while, on the contracts need not always be speci Im provem ent of M ankind. freedom of inquiry; that there other hand, we hear it as confi fied by written laws. They need might be too much boldness of dently asserted that the standards not even be formulated in articu opinion, and too much liberty of of virtue are mere standards of ex late speech. Their obligations are BY HORACE 8EAVER. intellectual enterprise—the strong pedience, gfcd vary with circum tacitly recognized as a preliminary stances as fashions vary with sea of any sort of social cooperation, of O attempt to improve man necessities and genuine interests of sons and climates. There is no any sefrt of social concomitance. kind on any other prin mankind have slowly and steadily doubt, for instance, that religious “Give every man his due;” “ Pay ciple than by a close, ac urged them onward to an indefin’te bigotry has begot a sort of fao your debts;” “Give if you would curate and undeviating attention perception of their rights and a titious conscience, shrinking from receive,” are international maxims, to facts, is as absurd and unavail corresponding assertion of claims the mere idea of devoting the sev founded on the earliest impressions ing as to expet that man, immersed to tb© natural exercise of their enth day of the week to physical of social instinct, rather than on in ignorance and surrounded by privileges. It is much to be la recreations, while the devotees of the lessons of social science or of every vicious temptation, shall be mented that too many people even the joy-loving gods of paganism preternatural revelation. The first better, wiser and happier than yet conceive that there are some thought it a solemn duty to cele discoverers of the South Sea when trained to be intelligent and opinions which ought not to be tol brate their holidays with festive Islands were amazed by a license active amid circumstances only erated, as they imagine that the revels. Marriage between persons of sexual intercourse that seemed which would perpetually unit** his free expression of them would tend of adventitious relationship (such to exceed the grossest burlesques of interest, his duty and his feelings. to disorganize society by subverting as widows and their surviving French fiction, but they were al The state of the world will never what they believe to be the founda brothers-in-law) is prohibited by most equally surprised by the he materially improved until tion of virtue. How can danger the statutes of one creed, and not scrupulous exactness of commercial knowledge shall be more generally possibly arise from the unrestrain only sanctioned, but distinctly en fair-dealing observed by those in diffused and the multitude are ed expression of any opinion what joined, by those of another. Specu continent children of nature. An taught to act from a just sense of ever, where reason and truth are lative dogmas that would deeply islander, who had agreed to pay their own interest, rather than left free to combat it? It is time shock the followers of Abd el Wa- three bagsful of yam roots for a from passion and prejudice. Hith the world had done with such ap hab are tolerated in Constanti common pocket knife, delivered erto, mankind have scarcely come prehensions: they have been sourc nople and venerated in Rome. two bagsful (all his canoe would to the investigation of the con es of infinite mischief in all ages But such contrasts dimmish, and hoi) before the evening of the next dition of their being, with half of and in every country. Such peo at last disappear, as we turn our day and received his knife, as the their reasoning powers; the residue ple appear to breathe the very attention from conventional to es sailors had about all the provisions have been absorbed by a legitima spirit of despotism, and act as if sential duties. A Mussulman bigot, they could use. But the next tized superstition, begotten in they want to communicate it. It is who would slay his son for drink morning, in trying to leave the youth on their ignorance, matured impossible not to infer from their ing wine in honor of a supplement coast by tacking against a fitful by precept and example and con apprehensions that as men increase in knowledge they must see reas ary god, would agree with the wor breeze, they were overtaken by a firmed by surrounding bigotry. shippers of that god that theft is a canae, containing a desperately- 1 he ideas of men are acquired, ons to disapprove the systems es Continued on 6th page. and these ideas are enlarged, cor- tablished. How can that mind be crime and benevolence a virtue. Qem s. M T