THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, OCTOBER ¿t>, lWil.
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Skepticism and Crime.
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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
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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
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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
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of
M
edicine
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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
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f
M
edicine,
T
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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
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tu
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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 .,
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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
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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
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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
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predominating ethical sense which descendants.—[Investigator.
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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
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moral, natures is displayed, from that leading priests might well even to readers of the TORCH OF REASON.
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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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mingle; as time passes the religious
A photograph has been taken of
begins to predominate to the detri­
ment of the ethical; and at last the the faculty of the Liberal Universi­
religious exists largely at the ex­ ty, and we have them for sale at
pense of the ethical.
fifty cents each, postpaid. This is
hag made a big reduction in our stock of
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Ladies’
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A
fine
line
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the Liberal world, though the dis­ of the Liberal University ought to
tinguished anthropologist simply have one of these photographs. The New Dress Goods in novelties,
expresses in authoritative form group consists of thirteen persons," Kid Gloves in the popular shades. Ladies’
what has long been supposed to be and is a splendid showing for our
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