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“ TRUTH HOLDS THE TORCH IN THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH.” — Lucretius- VOL. 3. SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1899. NO. 35. Robert O. Ingersoll. last and topmost branch, the true Hottentots are remains of the first, Infidelity. or speaking Man (Homo), distin and the Alfurus and a part of tf»e BY RICHARD CONWAY. BY HORACE SE A V E R . guished from his predecessor, by Malays of the second stock. How many advantages, but chiefly by ever, the descendants of the w’oolly- he end has com e, and over all s much as Infidelity is scout the greater differentiation or better haired stock (the Papuans or Ne H as fallen d e a th ’s ete rn al p a ll; ed and opposed, it is a curi No m ore, w hile countless cycles run, development of the limbs, the < gritos, the Hottentots, the Negroes, W hile sh in es th e tierce, relentless sun, ous fact that every great A nd s ta rlit skies th ro u g h m id n ig h t h o u r larynx and the cerebrum, and by Tasmanians, etc.) have remained at T he sleeping world w ith soft light show er, the possession of articulate speech. a much lower stage than most of revolution strengthens Infidelity Will those d e ar lips be moved again It is probable, however, that the the descendants of the smooth and weakens the church. Every In m atchless, ry th m ic , sublim e s tr a in ; To th rill m a n k in d as none h a th done corporeal changes w’ere completed haired stock, to which, according to circumstance that sets men to think W ith in o u r scope of life’s m ad ru n . long before the production of an ar Haeckel, we must refer the Austra ing, creates Infidels; and every at In speechless sorrow falls th e te a r For one so g reat he knew no fear, ticulate language, “and that the lians, the Malays, the Mongols, the tempt to improve the condition of So ju st, th a t m alice sought in vain human species with its erect gait, Americans, etc., but above all the any large class of the community, To spot his page w ith ju st one s ta in ; But, tow ering g ran d , serenely brave, and the peculiar form of body sup white or Caucasian race of man. whether they are borne down by T he n oblest m an th a t n a tu re gave, erinduced thereby, existed before “This species,” he says, “has become vice or by oppression, is sure to H e looked w ith pity on th e ir spleen, And answ ered sneer w ith sm ile serene. the true development of human more highly and beautifully de meet with such opposition from the W here savage creeds held savage sw ay, speech, therewith the second and veloped than any other, chiefly by church, that reformers in fighting D eth ro n in g reason day by day. W ith noble im pulse, F re ed o m ’s child, more important part of the produc adaption to the favorable conditions for these good works are obliged to H e fought h e r battles fierce and w ild; of existence presented by Europe, fight the church into the bargain. tion of man, was completed.” Above th e sh a tte re d , cruel creeds The temperance reformers have H e stood, a m o n u m en t to noble deeds; This last process, the production with « its temperate climate and ex- And, p o in tin g tow ard th e m orning gray, of articulate language, in combina ceedingly advantageous geographi been obliged to fight the church in The golden daw ning of a g ran d er day, He w earied of th is world of strife, tion with the higher development cal conformation.” In Haeckel’s carrying on their good work; other And sank to rest a t th e end of life. or perfection of the larynx, which opinion this species was produced social reformers are obliged to do C arroll, Iow a, J u ly 23,1899. again must have been accompanied in southern Asia from a brunch of the same. All genuine philan by a corresponding improvement the Malayan and Polynesian species, thropists, all genuine reformers, Origin of Man. in the brain, probably did not take or perhaps from a ramification of therefore, are obliged to tight the place until a period when the speech the Mongolian. From southern church, while contending for their BY DR. L. B U C H N E R . less primitive man had already be Asia the white man has spread good works; and Infidelity gains westward? and become diffused over new ground by being always on the he first step in the production come divided or sub-divided into a western Asia, northern Africa and side of reform. But whatever is of man, the immediate tran- number of species or sub-species. in e whole of Europe. His skull is proscriptive and intoleraut the sitorial form from the most For, according to Haeckel, the vari ous languages show so great a diff most frequently of an oval form church defends. man-like apes toman and the com and holds a middle place between This is the state of things, and it mon stock-form of all the species of erence among themselves that it is long and short-headed types—the shows that so intimately connected man, was, according to Haeckel, impossible to believe that they two extremes and rudest forms of is religion with all established laws, the supposititious (and long since could have had a common origin, cranial structure. This species, customs, and institutions, that no extinct) creatures which he names and we must therefore assume the however, is considered to have innovation car. be attempted for divided at a very early period into the primitive or ape-man (Homo existence of as many primitive lan two divergent branches—namely, the removal of any social evil, with primigenios, Pithecanthropus, Ala- guages as there are families of lan the Semitic stock, which spread in out giving more offeree to the lus). This was produced from the guages. Hence the sub division of the south, and from which origin church than to any other body of Anthropoid apes by complete habi the primitive man into the various ated the Jews, Arabs, Phoenicians, men. At the same time the church tuation to an erect gait, and the species of man must have occurred Abyssinians, etc.; and the Indo- claims to be the great moral and Germanic stock, which migrated stronger differentiation thus caused before the time of the origin of lan more towards the west and north social physician, whose spiritual between the extremeties by the de guage. “Nevertheless, even these and gave origin to the most highly panacea is the only remedy for the velopment of the fore-limb into the mu3t converge at their origin at a developed civilized races, the Hin ills and woes of life. Yet it is true hand, and of the hind-limb higher or lower point, and therefore doos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, notorious that when any practical Germans, Sclaves, etc.— [Man in into the true foot. He was still all must finally be derivable from a the Past, Present and Future. reform is to be commenced, it has common primitive stock.” destitute of the essential character to be undertaken outside of the In all probability, according to istic of the true man, namely, ar Ingersoll’s Creed. church and by men whom the Haeckel, this process of the forma ticulate speech, and the conscious church condemns as Infidels, every o love justice, to long for body being considered as an Iufidel thought which is associated with it. tion of species of man from the right, to love mercy, to as by the church who steps out of her There are many reasons, according primitive stock took place in the; In the first j sist the weak, to forget old and beaten track. to Haeckel, which justify us in sup following manner. place, there were developed from j wrongs and remember benefits, to posing that this primitive man In short, it is self-evident to every must have been a woollv-haired, the speechless primitive man a love the truth, to be sincere, to ut honest words, to love liberty, to observer that the church and priest prognathous, long-headed being, number of different species long ter wage relentless war against slavery hood have always been the greatest of a dark brown or blackish color. since extinct and quite unknown to in all its forms, to love wife, chil obstacles in existence to all moral The hairy covering of his body may us, of which the two most divergent dren and friends, to make a happy and intellectual progress; and we have been stronger and thicker prevailed over the rest in the strug home, to love the beautiful in art, may set it down as certain, that than in any other species of man; I gle for existence, and in their turn in nature, to cultivate the mind, to only in proportion as they are de be familiar with the mighty his arras were probably longer and became the stock-forms of all other thoughts that genius has expressed, prived of power and influence, can stronger in proportion, and his legs human species. These contained a the noble deeds of all the world, to the condition of mankind be ameli shorter and thinner, with unde woolly-haired and a smooth-haired cultivate courage and cheerfulness, orated. We consider all Infidels, veloped calves. His gait would be species. The woolly-haired species to make others happy, to fill life therefore, as pioneers in the import half erect, with iubent knees. His spread especially to the south of with the splendor of generons acts, the warmth of loving words, to dis home may have been southern Asia the equator, whilst the smooth card error, to destroy prejudice, to ant work of universal redemption, or eastern Africa, or perhaps a con haired branch turned towards the receive new’ truths with gladness, to for they are engaged in the task of north, and in the first place peopled cultivate hope, to see the calm be removing the chief obstacle to polit tinent now submerged. From this primitive man, by Asia. A portion of it may have yond the storm, the dawn beyond ical and moral improvement.— natural selection in the strugele for been driven towards Australia. the night, to do the best that can be [Occasional Thoughts. done, and then be resigned.” existence, there was developed as a I Perhaps the existing Papuans and ( T A T T