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
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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
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by honest work; but when* earned
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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 ;
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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.
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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.
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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.