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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1899)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, OCTOBER ¿t>, lWil. 6 Skepticism and Crime. Will Help All He Can. Should vou wish to im prove th e q u al- ■ , , t . ity of your b read , use th e C elebrateti Magic Y east. N o thing like it for pro- ducing a lig h t, sw eet, n u tritio u s loaf of bread. It will reta in its m o istu re and n a n ..........™ bread raised n u u tty u y u flavor a v m longer v th .,« with anv o th e r y east ev er p u t Upon th e ' T ry IT. W oodw orkers, don t forget to send an o rd er for a set of th e F o retn er A uger g j^ , p rice, |2.fi0 b y m ail. See ad . ------------------- -----------------------------------— Those of our readers who are ac- E ditor T orch of R eason : quaiuted with the contents of the I received romeof your announee- little pamphlet, The Crimes of mentsof the Liberal I niversity and perg<mg of ln,,.hsnicll or Inventive mind desiring a trip to the P a r i» E x p o s i ti o n , With good Preachers, or who are familiar with have distributed them among my salary and expenses paid, should write The PA T E N T R E C O R D , B altim ore, Md. the statistics of religious belief of friends. Someof them said that they , market prisoners, that have been spread were going to subscribe for the4------- COLLEGE OF before them from time to time by'Torch; hut I have been absent for writers for the Freethought press, some time and just returned, and are doubtless aware that all of the have scarcely seen anyone yet, but < y ft crime in the world is not due to the you may count on my getting all to influence of skepticism, even if our subscribe that 1 can. O F C H IC A G O While I am old myself and can clerical friends would have it so un derstood. As a matter of fact, the not take time now to get the edu influence of breethought is directly cation that 1 ought to have had in F a ll T e r m w ill B e g in S e p te m b e r 2 7 in opposition to criminally invasive my younger days, I like to see the tendencies, for Freethought arises young brought up under the influ c to rs o f th e C o rp o ra tio n noori^m st in a religious community when ence of truth, so that they will he A. E. G ammage , P re sid D e n ire t .......................................................................L e a r, I? J . H . G r e e k , M. I)., V ice-P resid en t an d T re a s u re r. . . . . . . . . . . . . . o- Itearliorn . t- an honor instead of disgraceful somebody develops the ethical sense F lorence E . D kessler , S e c re ta ry .......................................................... G ladys A \e . so strongly that the ethical un slaves to corrupt priestcraft. To say that I wish you success sound ness of supposedly inspired FACULTY VVM. F. T A IT , M. D., D ean , E D IT H TEN LEA C L A R K E , M . D ., dogmas is perceived. In other in your work, does not express my Professor of in s titu te s of M edicine an d Professor of G eneral and E x p e rim e n ta l words, skepticism is the direct re feelings, and I wish that Iwasonly Surgery. Physiology. sult of the perception of wrong in able to give enough to finish the W M . W . COOK, A. M ., M. D. W. E . W IN S K E L . M. D ., Professor of Science o f M edicine, T h era- P rofessor ot G eneral and D escriptive the face of almost universal testi school. ■gieal E Emergencies. peutics and M ateria M edica. A natom y and Surgical m ergencies. Yours respectfully, mony that wrong is right. So it is R . V . W A G N E R . M. D ., C H A R L E S E. BO W ER S, M. I) K. B. A nderson . Professor Professor of E lectro -T h erap eu tics. a fair presumption that the unbe of P ractical an d C linical M ed E D W A R D D. W A H L , M. D., icine. Albany, Ore., Oct. 19, 1899. liever is one whose tendencies are Professor of Physics, C h em istry , U r in C H A R L E S J . L E W IS , M. D., not toward crime. alysis and Toxicology. Profesor of Physiology of th e N ervous We have to accept the fact of Svstem , and G eneral Pathology and H O W A R D TAYLOR SM IT H , D, D. 6 ., Now comes the well known Ital Professor of D ental Surgery. L e c tu re r on nervous D iseases. ian anthropologist, Cæsare Lom deaib in spite of our “hunger and W . E . W IN S K E L , M. D ., H O M E R O. BATES, M. D., broso, who has been investigating thirst” for continuous physical life, Professor of M edical an d Surgical G y n D em o n strato r of A natom y. aecology. certain matters concerning the re why not eternal death? Let us be JO H N J . B R A D L E Y , M. D ., W IL L IA M A. T A IT , M. D ., L ectu rer on Rectal and Anal D iseases. lation between religion and crime, brave! Nothing so bad about it, Professor of O perative and C linical S u r ANLON FR A N K , and says that church people are after all, if Christianity is not true gery and Surgical D iagnosis. D em o n strato r of Surgical In stru m e n ts JO S E P H H. G R E E R , M. D „ about half honest persons and half —and we know it is not.—[Otto and O rthopedical A ppliances. Professor of M edical and Surgical Gen- knaves, and that sometimes the Wettstein 0T T O M A R C A R T JC Z E K , ito -U rin arv Diseases and D erm atology. D em o n strato r o f R oentgen Ray D iagno knaves predominate. On the other A. E. G A M M A G E, A ttorney , sis and of Illu m in atin g an d C au tery Professor of M edical J u risp ru d e n c e and hand, skepticism he finds to be al A p p aratu s. We are told that Christian sci In sa n ity . most devoid of criminal predilec ence teaches that the ultimate man FR A N K S. L E W IS , H . W . S C A IF E , M. A., M. D. In s tru c to r in L atin . tions, and he quotes Ferri as find is to he god-like. If Christian sci Prof.of H ygiene and P rev en tiv e M edicine ing but one skeptic among sevi n ence will now describe one or two F e e s an d E x p e n s e s . hundred criminals. Lombroso at gods, we shall be in a position to M atricu latio n Fee, paid only once .............................................................................^ n ‘oo tributes this state of affairs to the get very well acquainted with our G eneral T ick et, each vear of a tte n d a n c e ................................................................... w .W A natom ical T icket, including m a te ria l, first and second years, each y e a r ---- 5.00 predominating ethical sense which descendants.—[Investigator. L aboratory T ick et, first and second years, each y e a r ............................................... 5.00 exists in communities abounding in skeptics. The pope has addressed a letter Lombroso further finds that the older a religion becomes, the more to the Brazilian bishops, in which P R O G R E SS IV E M E D IC A L C O LLE G E marked the line of cleavage be he tells them they should interest In Keeping with the Advance of the Times. themselves in public affairs, and tween the religious and ethical, or The Directors have decided to make Special Liberal Inducements moral, natures is displayed, from that leading priests might well even to readers of the TORCH OF REASON. Address for Announcement enter congress, for the benefit of re which it is to be inferred that the and Terms, ligion and their native land. And antiquity of the Christian religion is not something upon which to lay this, we may add, is good Catholic particular stress, after all. In new doctrine in the United Stales.— 1 6 7 D e a rb o rn S t r e e t , religions, the ethical and moral [Sentinel. 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