R eason . SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1899. VOL. 3. For the Torch of Reason. ural justice, civil rights and the! laws of hum anity had no place in I th at code of revealed ethics. Such teachings bore their fruit in . , the horrors of insurrection. In the NO, 27. This World. anxieties of life, we have recourse Freethought is an Ocean. to the excitem ents of religion, BY HORACE S E A V E R . shall we not be sim ilarly situated? BY MRS. R. A . BELL. Let us hope for the tim e when know ne world at a time is quite ledge shall dispel the worst miseries reethocght is an ocean th at wil1 n , ,.r , , . spread from pole to pole, Peasants’ W ar thousands of con- enough to atten d to, nor of life.— [Occasion 1 T houghts. And the tides of evolution th ro ’ vents and castles were rent as bv does there seem to be any ' its vast domains ro ll; ! ..*i . . . . r i. • a It9 broad expanse of crystal waves will ¡th e o u tb u rst of a hurricane, and good reason for attending to a n widen evermore their dwellers had to learn the in- other, since it m ust be self-evident Evolution vs. Design. I’ntil it reaches every clime and spreads convenience of having to subm it to that when m ankind know how to from shore to shore. the powers th a t happened to be, by live properly on the earth, they are BY H E R B E R T SPE N C E R . Freethought is the ocean where narrow being torn lim b from limb, or fiay- prepared to live in heaven, if there creeds are tending— Thev’re drifting toward this mighty sea ed and roasted alive, be any such place in reserve for uring the first phase of unconscious of the blending; An old A rabian proverb says, them . But w ithout this indispens But on it flows—increasing power— a developm ent, the m am m al mighty tidal wave, ‘‘If justice is disregarded, it is just able preparation, it will not he a ian em bryo circulates its Each sparkling drop to thirsty minds th at everything perish”— a doom verv desirable residence, even when blood through a system of vessels gives power ourselves to save. outrages they arrive there, and hence we distributed over w hat is called the Freethought is the ocean to which act which the intolerable ive minds must tend, against hum an rights and h u m an i may say, th a t whether in regard to area vasculoea—a system of vessels And when within its loving arms all an ty a t last experienced in the cata- this world or another, our Infidel homologous with one which, am ong cient discords end, Don’t stay an inland, stagnant pool, a clysm of the French Revolution, doctrine is the only proper one for fishes, serves for a e ratin g the blood source of death to be— * ‘ In knowledge grow ami onward flow to There, too, the despieers of n atu ral either. until the p erm an en t respiratory Freedom’s boundless sea! justice had to eat their own doc It is tru e th at men are seldom so organs come into play. After a Freethought is the ocean of liberty and trine, the strongholds of absolutism absorbed in thoughts of heaven as time, there buds out from the m am light, th a t had withstood the tears of so to be w ithout care or interest for m alian em bryo, a vascular m em And on its deep, broad bosom the foes of m any generations were swept away the good things of earth, and th a t brane called the allantois, homo Truth we’ll flght; We’ll spread the flag of Truth and Love: by a torrent of blood, and the if the first day of the week belong logous with one which, in birds and with Reason’s mighty chain We’ll hind the gods of myth and crime priests and princes whose in h u m an to God, the other six are consid- reptiles, replaces the first as a and set their ships aflame! ity had turned their serfs into wild ered ashelonging to Mammon. But breathing ap p a ratu s. But while in beasts learned the significance of this only proves th a t men are as the higher oviparous vertebrates, Justice. their m istake when th eir own inconsistent in following out their the allan to is serves the purpose of IN F IV E PA RTS. th ro ats were m angled by the fangs principles, as they are irrational in a lung during the rest of em bryonic of those beasts. adopting thorn. If heaven be a life, it does not do so in the m am BY F . L. OSW ALD. The doctrine of salvation by reality, as we are told it is, it ought m alian em bryo. In irnplacental grace had substituted favor and to absorb our thoughts, and to con m am m als, it aborts, having no PART IV . — PE N A L T IE S OF N EG LEC T. caprice for the rights of natural ju s stitu te the sob* end and aim of our function to discharge; and in the eed we wonder th a t the con tice, and for a series of centuries higher m am m als, it becomes “ plac actions. verts of th a t creed believ the consequences of its teachings We shall perhaps be told, th a t ent iferous, and serves as the means ed in the m erit of passive were seen in the treatm ent of nearly of intercom m unication between the submission to the caprices of e a rth every benefactor of m ankind. The m an would faint and sink under parent and the offspring”— becomes ly despots, and scorned the appeals prince who devoted the fruits of his tem poral afflictions, hut for the an organ of nu tritio n more th an of of justice in th eir dealings with conquests to the feeding of count consolations derived from heavenly respiration. Now since the first Pagans and F reethinkers? W hy less convent drones, let scholars or sp iritu al hopes. We adm it th a t system of external blood-vessels, anticipations of a heaven of bliss should men try to he better than starve, and loaded the discoverer of excite and give pleasure for the not being in contact with a directly- their god? The worshiper of a god a New W orld with chains. His m om ent. Perhaps the opium -eater, oxygenated m ed iu m ,can n o t be very who doomed the souls of u n b ap successors who lavished the trea- serviceable to the m am m alian em tized children and honest dissent- sures of their vast em pire on pimps in his ecstatic reveries, was never bryo as a lung; and since the more perfectly blessed than some ers, n atu rally had no hesitation in and clerical m ountebanks, let Cer- second system of external blood assailing the bodies of their unbe vantes perish in penury. The sove enthusiasts have been in their vessels is, to the irnplacental em dream s of paradise. But. opium , lieving fellow-men, and princes who reign protector o f a thousand stall- bryo, of no greater avail than the loaded fawning sycophants with fed prelates refused to relieve the though it offers a seducing mode of first; and since the com m unication escaping from present pain, is yet favors which they denied to honest Jagt distress of John Kepler. The exceedingly pernicious in its after (belween the <‘m bry,> and tbe Pla ’ patriots, could appeal to the sane- m oralists who th o u g h t it a griev- effects. Depression succeeds to un- cen,a am onS P,acental m am m als, tion of a divine precedent. Every a nce th a t the church should be de- n atu ra l excitem ent, and m om ents mi8h t aR we" or bctter bave bpe" petty “ sovereign of six faithful n jed the right of tith in g the lands of bliss are followed by days of n,ade ‘Hrectly, instead of by m eta square miles” accordingly became a | of southern S pain, had no pity for misery. Visions of another world m orpbosis of the allan to is; these ■ aw unto himself. A m an’s m ight the sufferings of the men whose seem to ns to act as a sort of moral a PP8ar unaccountable was the measure of his right; the iabor had m ade those lands blos opium , often no less injurious to re8U' t8 of de8i8"- Bul they £ire “ first law’’ of iron-clad bullies som like the gardens of paradise, the C hristian than his favorite *luite c,,ne raoU8 « ¡th >b« supposi- reigned suprem e from the Baltic to and who were exiled by thousands tion, lh a t the m am m alian type the M editerranean, and the judges for t he crime of preferring the solace is to the Turk. arose out of lower vertebrate types. But men m ust be wrêtched in- of ( the only independent) ecclesias- u n h a ry God of the K oran to the ~ ~ M For in such case, the m am m alian tic courts Confined their attention trin ita ry Gods of the New Testa- deed, if to save them selves from to ferocious punishm ents of neglect m ent. despair, they m ust resort to arti- embryo, passing through states re F o D N in the paym ent of tithes and the performance of socage duties and ceremonies. 1'he belief in the di- vine right of potentates, and pas- sive submission to the most out- rageous abuse of th a t power, were assiduously inculcated as prim ary duties of a C hristian citizen. Nat- -------------------- ficial stim uli, physical or m oral; Let any man inquire of himself and we believe th a t in every case w hether he has certainty of any- the rem edy is worse than the thirTg th at is not conveyed to him disease. Nay, more; the remedy by his senses, and whether the de- perpetuates the disease. If a m an, sire of obtaining pleasure and to escape his cares, sesorts to the avoiding pain is not the first mo- b o ttk , his cares will soon increase, title of all his actions.— Ex. and ruin him. And if, to quiet the presenting, more or less d istin ctly , those which its remote ancestors bad com m on with the lower y ertebrata> developes thege g a W d i. t . a rY o r?ans ,n ,ke with the lower V ertebrata. [S ynthetic Phil- osophy.