“ 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 (
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