T o n n i of “ TRUTH BEARS THE TORCH IN THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH.” — VOL. 3. SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1899. NO. 38. T he L ove of M oney. but if I could m ake it, I can also * * * * * unm ake it; which evidently is n o t' One of the most singular exam - The New Trinity. BY SMILES. tru e; therefore there m u st be, ex- Pl«« of th e lengths to w hich a ph.1- te rn a llv to mvself, an archetype, osopher of em inence m ay be led he saving of m<»n©y for tlm BY ISA A C A . POOL. from which the' conception was de- i aw ay by an am biguity of language, mere sake of it, is but a mean IV E S m ay pass as d a y lig h t passes, rived. The am biguity in th is c a s e ; « afforded by th is very case. I re- thing, even though earned F littin g like th e fleeting b re a th ; is in the pronoun I, by w hich, in i fer to the famous argum ent by _ by honest work; but when* earned ' T hese are M a tte r’s endless changes, one place, is to be understood roy ¡which Bishop Bel e ey t a t a r i dice-throw ing, or speculation, T hese we speak ab o u t as D eath. Life is b u t th e songs of M atter, will, in an o th er the laws of my na- himself th a t he had forever put an and . w ithout labor, it is still worse. W akened by E te rn a l fo rc e ; ture. If th e conception, existing as end t o ‘scepticism, atheism and ir- To provide for others, and for our U n d e rn ea th , th e living Ego Swings its ev erlastin g course. it does in my m ind, had no orig- religion.’ It is briefly as follows- own com fort and independence in inal w ithout, the conclusion would I thought of a thing yesterday; I old age, is honorable, and greatly All below is calm an d placid As th e deeps b en eath th e s e a ; unquestionably follow th a t I m a d e /e a s e d to think of it; I think of it to be commended; but to hoard for Only on th e o u te r surface it; th a t is, th e laws of my nature iagain today. I had, therefore, in mere w ealth’s sake is tiie ch aracter Can th e h u rric a n e be free. H e arts m ay break in u tte r anguish, m ust have spontaneously evolved my m ind yesterday an idea of the istic of the narrow-souled and the O ut of bounds, beyond control, it; but th a t my will m ade it, would I object; I have also an idea of it to- miserly. It is against the growth They am ong th e flesh m ay languish Sorrow can not reach th e “ Soul. not follow. Now when Descartes day; this idea is evidently not an- of this habit of inordinate saving, “ Soul?” —I h e a r your fervid question !— afterw ards adds th a t I can not u n - 1 other, but the very sam e idea. 1 et th a t the wise m an needs m ost c a re “ T rin itv ” I use as well. m ake the conception, lie m eans th a t ’ an intervening tim e elapsed in fully to guard him self; else, w hat W h at th ey are, for your digestion, I will u n d e rta k e to tell. I can not get rid of ft by an act o f ' which I had it not. W here was in youth was sim ple econom y, m ay T hrough th e U niverse unending my own; which is true, but is n o t !fh e id e a during tins in terv al? I t in old age grow into avarice, and T hese E te rn a ls hold th e ir sway ; M atter, Force, in all th e ir Spaces— the proposition required. T h a t must have been somewhere; it did what was a d u ly in the one, m ay All, th e ir principles obey. w hat some of the laws of mv nature! not cease to exist; otherwise the become a vice in the other. It is P rinciples to each ad h erin g , have produced, o th er laws, or those ¡idea I had yesterday could not be the love of m oney, not money itself, Never such a th in g as law s ; Laws require a m a k e r’s ste e rin g ; „ same laws in other circum stances ' the sam e idea; no more th an the which is the “ root of evil”—a love Cosmos know s no “ g reat first cause. m ight not subsequently efface, he ¡m an I see alive today can be the which narrow s and contracts the T hings e te rn al never p erish, Never can Iiegin to b e ; . would have found it difficult to oh saiue whom I saw yesterday, if soul, and closes it against generous Though th e gods and creeds you cherish the man has died in the m ean life and action. Hence, Sir W alter tablish. Bend for you th e cow ard’s knee. while. Now, an idea can not be Scott makes one of his characters Analogous to this are some of the Spaces fill th e void unbo u n d ed , conceived to exist anyw here except declare th a t “ the penny siller slew B ounding each pecu liar form ; am biguities iu the free will contro in a, m ind; and htnee there m ust m air souls th an the naked sword Force produces life, com pounded versy; which, as they will come W here th e globes of M a tte r sw arm . exist a universal m ind, in which all slew bodies.” It is one of the de L ig h t and h e a t are only m otion, under special consideration in the ideas have their perm anent resi fects of business too exclusively fol- Force, th e p a re n t, guides them w ell; concluding hook, 1 only m ention T hus She breaks th e p rie s t’s devotion, dence during the intervals of their lowed, th a t it insensibly tends to a Mocks him w ith creatio n ’s spell. aiem oriæ causa. In th a t discus conscious presence in our own m echanism of character. The busi sion, too, the word I is often sh ift Male and fem ale has som e m ean in g ; m inds. ness m an gets into a ru t, and often M atter, m ale, bestow s th e form . ed from one m eaning to another, at F orce, from indolency w eaning, T h at Berkeley here confounded does not look beyond it. If he lives one tim e standing for my volitions, W akes th e pulses round and w arm . sameness num ero with sameness for himself only, he becomes apt to So they fill anew th e Spaces at another tim e for the actions W here we close our flash of T im e ; specie, th a t is, with exact resem regard other hum an beings only in which are the consequence of them , Build th e suns and p la n e t’s graces— blance, and assum ed the form er so far as they m inister to his ends. Sing for m e th is sim ple rhym e. or the m ental dispositions from where there was only the latter, Take a leaf from such m en’s ledg Such I hail th e triu n e j>ower. which they proceed. T he latter hardly needs be more particularly er, and you have their life. It is Spaces, M a tte r, Force, th e th ree, am biguity is exemplified in an a r All as One th e Cosmos dow er pointed out. He could never have said of one of our most em in en t W ith its vast infinity. gum ent on Coleridge (in his Aids to broached this strange theory if he m odern men of business— withal a Form s m ay change, to ruin scatter, Reflection) in support of the free Still rem ains th e perfect whole. had understood th a t when we say scrupulously honorable m an— who Form s are still e te rn al M atter, dom of the will. I t is not true, he we have the same thought today spent his life m ainly in m oney Force, to Cosm os, d eath less Soul. says, th a t man is governed by mo which we had yesterday, we do not m aking, aud succeeded, th a t when T hese req u ire no sordid preachers, tives; ‘the man m akes the motive, mean the sam e individual thought, upon his death bed, he turn ed to Scorching th ro u g h th e stre ets of h e ll; not the m otive the m an;’ the proof Science, R eason, are our teachers, hut a thought exactly sim ilar; as his favorite d au g h ter, and said sol “ T ru th , an d only t r u t h ,” to tell. being th a t ‘w hat is a strong m otive we say we have the sam e illness em nly to her, “ H asn ’t it been a H ere no needs for deep d am n atio n , to one man is no motive at all to Filling cow ard h e arts w ith fear; which we had last year, m eaning m istake, ------ ? ” H e had been H ere no prom ised, cheap sa lv atio n — an o th er.’ The prem ise is true, but only the sam e sort of illness. [A th in k in g of the good which other Sold for ready dollars here! only am ounts to this, th a t different System of Logic. men of his race had done, and M anhood, free from S u p erstitio n , persons have different degrees of Y et m ay glorify th e race ; which he m ight have done, had he W hen he m eets each fair condition susceptibility to the sam e m otive; W ith an h o n e st, m anly face. Men seek retreats for them selves not u n h ap p ily found exclusive as they have also to the sam e in- Freed from tales of som e h ereafter, m oney-m aking to be a m istake when Told of “ C h rists” and “ heav’nly toxicating liquid, which however — bouses in the country, sea-shores, it was too late to remedy it.— b i r t h ;” does not prove th a t they are free to and m ountains; and thou, too, a rt H e will an sw er them w ith lau g h ter, “ I ’ve enough to do on e a rth ! be dru n k or not d ru n k , whatever wont to desire such things very [Room At T he Top. For th e T orch of R eason. L q u an tity they may d iin k . W hat is proved is, th a t certain m ental con Fallacies of Contusion. ditions in the m an himself m ustco- operate, in the production of the BY JOHN STUART MILL. _ ____ act, with the external inducem ent; H E following is an argum ent but those m ental conditions also of Descartes to prove, in his are the effect of causes; and there a priori m anner, the being i? nothing in th e argum ent to prove th a t they can arise w ithout a cause of God. T he conception, says he, of an infinite being proves the real ex — th a t a spontaneous determ ina- istence of such a being. For if tion of the m an ’s will, w ithout any there is not really any such being, cause a t all, ever takes place, as the I m ust have m ade the conception; free-will doctrine supposes. m uch. But this is altogether a work of the most com m on men; for it is in thy power, whenever thou ehalt choose, to retire into thyself. For nowhere, either with more quiet or __ more freedom from trouble,does a tnan retire th an into, his own soul, p articu larly when be h " wit in him such thou& th a t b y ^ o k m g W hat a grand power is the power of thought! Aud what a grand be ing is m an when he uses it arig h t; because, after all, it is the use m ade of it th a t is the im p o rtan t thing. C haracter comes out of tho u g h t; or ra th e r thought comes out of c h a r acter. The p a rtic u la r thoughts are like the blossoms on the trees; they tra n q u iiity< And I affirm th a t tell of w hat kind it is. “ As a man i8 nothing else th an the tran q u ility is th in k eth in his heart, so he is.’ — good ordering of the m ind.— [Gems Sir W. Raleigh. of T hought.