THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, NOVEMBER 16, 1899.
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wishes to raise aloft as the illumin- Thou hast revealpd tho «.«.„a nt k u . » -u . . , . . .
ating guide in the search for Truth. obligation, and taught that Justice CourtlLi'lt P 1 r‘<'nd’ and n’lne> “He hved and labored for his
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is the highest form of love. Thou never-to-be-forgotten word« so de- weak and ™
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mainspring that presses us to the hast shown that even self-love, scriptive of himself - and ’now so and rich T w T T n V 1*0“8
search for Truth? It is none other guided by intelligence, embraces' applicable ,0 us:
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D0W 801 ?nd " ch- He welcomed light. His
than the daughter of Liberty, and with loving arms the human race.
“The clouds bad fallen from his face was ever towards the East.
she
“According to his light he lived.
. is Love.
„ u • For,
, , as soon as . we
. . are I,. 7 0U ha8' fo" nded Hie true re-: life. He saw that the old faiths
free, we begin to choose and choice hg,on. Thou art the very Christ.1 were but phases of the growth o The world was his country—to do
is love of the better and truer, and j the only Savior of mankind.”
| m an -th at on, from th e darkness good his religion.’ There is no
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Thus, he says, we are brought to up from the depths, the human language to express a nobler creed
2. L ove bursts from his heart; see • that ll the desire of knowledge race through countless ages and in than this; nothing can be grander,
“ Love is the only bow on Life’s lost us the Eden of the past, it will every land had struggled towards more comprehensive, nearer perfect.
This was the creed that glorified
dark cloud. It is the morning and give us the Eden of the future.”
the ever-growing light.
his life and made his death sub­
the evening star. It shines upon
And now, lastly, what wiil be
‘‘He felt that the living are in­ lime.
the babe, and sheds its radiance on the leading word of progress to and
debted to the noble dead, and that
“What can we say? A heart
* the quiet tomb. It is the mother of in the “Eden of the future,” that
each should pay his debt; that he breaks, a man dies, a leaf falls in
art, inspirer of poet, patriot and land of the Earthly Paradise? It
should pay it by preserving to the the far forest, a babe is horn, and
philosopher. It is the air and light can be no other than that sublim-
extent of his power the good he has, thp great world sweeps on-
of every hearth. It was the first to est correlation, the union of all of
by destroying the hurtful, by add­
“By the grave of man stands the
dream of immortality. It fills the the powers of the race for the good
ing to the knowledge of the world, Angel of Silence.
world with melody — for music is and glory of a ll-in a word:
by giving better than he has receiv-
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Farewell, dear friend, the world
the voice of love. Love is the ma­ 3. H umanity itself! This con­ j
• d; and hat each should he the is better fo, your life The world
gician, the enchanter, that changes cept is more and more becoming
worthless things to joy, and makes the central union, the criterion and care, of a torch, a giver of light is braver for your death.”
a 1 thet is, for all to be.
And here we must close the quo-
right royal kings and queens of savior of all human interests.
This was the religion of duty tations - with the pathos with
common clay. It is lhe perfume of
Thus Herder and Goethe led off
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‘he close of bis
that wondrous flower, the heart, in its recognition in such words as Ofman wit i'nl't;V " “ h"' i“ ’6 “ T
of mao, within the circumference of own personal life. How can any
and without that sacred passion, these:
the k n o w n - a religion without friend, any one who knew him,
that divine swoon, we are less than Im hoeehsten Sinn der Zukunft zu be-
' nn l i i r ' " n ,CT ne^ 6 for the H ' 1
words except in silence?
gruenden,
beasts; but with it, earth is heaven,
H umanitaet sei unser ewig Ziel.
d7r"t,oJt
' ,’ a r ^ g'<,UUn| “An<1 80 l00kin* in carriage
and we are gods.”
Durch
Menschlicbkeit geheilt die derstood by the head and approved vows his children’s hands and
Yes! love takes up the torch and
Sehwersten Plagen !
by he h e a r t - a religion that ap- crossing others on the breasts of
can not fail to find Truth—Sciencel “ In highest sense to found the Future,
pealed to reason with a definite end peace, with daughter’s babes upon
And then this astonishing apostro­ L e t Hum anity be ever our end and aim.
Through the human the heaviest ills are in view
the civilization and" de- his knees, the white hair mingling
phe bursts from his lips:
healed.
velopment of the human race by with the gold, he journevs on from
“Science! thou alone performest
T homas P aine , in the Seventh legitimate, adequate and natural day to day to (hat hon'zon where
the true miracle. ’ Thou alone art
Crisis, first used the phrase, “Re means, that is to say, by ascertain- ihe dusk is waiting for the night
the worker of real wonders. Thou
ligion of Humanity.” A uguste .ng the conditions of progress and At last, sitting by the holy hearth
knowest the circuits of the wind
C omte , the great Positivist Philoso­ by teaching each to be noble enough of home as evening’s embers change
thou knowest ‘whence it came and
pher, gave an extended version of ’“T r ° F
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l rrOm rcd ‘° ®reJ> he falls asleep
whither it goeth’. Fire is thy ser­
that religion, unfortunately iu a
1 his is the gospel of men; this) within the arms of her he worship-
vant and lightning thy messenger!
Roman Catholic dress, which the is the gospel of this world; this is I ped and adored, feeling upon his
Thou art the great philanthropist.
non-Latin peoples have repudiated, the religion of humanity; this is a pallid lips love’s last and holiest
Thou hast freed the slave and civil­
but the mighty concept is there, philosophy that contemplates not kiss.”
ized the master. Thou hast taught and that our leader grandly recog­
with scorn, hut with pity, with ad-
Whose heart, but that of our
man to enchain, not bis fellow nized. On a visit to Comte’s tomb
miration and with love all that noble Poet and Prophet-Leader ever
man, but the forces of Nature —
he places this French philosopher man has done, regarding, as it does, “gave endurance to time” so ’ten-
forces that have no backs to be far above the French hero-demon
the past with all its faults and vir-J deriy for those he loved’—and fin-
scarred, no limbs for chains to chill Napoleon, and says:
tu.e’> its sufferings, its cruelties and ally for himself!
and eat — forces that never know
“There was, in the brain of the cr,me> as tlie »"'y road by which
Many more of his glorious words
fatigue, forces that never shed tears, great Frenchman, the dawn of that tha more P«rfect could be reached, shining like jewels in this “dark
forces that have no hearts to break. happy day in which humanity will
“He deemed the supernatural— 1 world”, might be given, but ihese
“Thou art the great physician. 3G the only religion, good the only ,’*e phantoms and the ghosts that
are enough.
I hese give beyond
Thy touch hath given sight; thou god, happiness the only object, res-
^ie twilight-land of fear. To doubt the grand foundation and
hast made the lame to leap,
the
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titution the only atonement, mis-
an^ for him thure was but one purpose of his own life, as well as
' urn to speak, and in the pallid take the only sin, and affection rfcligi°n — the religion of pure of the lives of our friends for whom
¡'c thy hand hath set the rose of gUided by intelligence the only thought», of noble words, of self­ they were spoken. That founda­
health. Thou art the destroyer of savior of mankind. This dawn il- ¡d ry in g deeds, of honest work for
pain. Thou hast given thy beloved luminated the darkness of his life, a^ the world—the religion of Help tion, then, clearly rested upou the
four cornerstones upon which must
sleep, and wrapt in happy dreams and filled his eyes with proud and an^ Hope!
stand that better world of the Fu­
the throbbing nerves of pain.
tender tears.
“Facts were the foundation of ture to be, viz., L iberty , L ove ,
Thou art the perpetual provi­ “When everything connected hi» faith;
history
was his
S cience and
H umanity
. prophet;
Because Because
dence of Man — builder of homes, . with Napoleon, except his crimes, {eason his guide; duty his deity; O
ur deDarted l e a d e r stnnd rirm i«
preserver of love and life! Thou have been forgotten, Auguste Comte happiness the end; intelligence the I based upon these as the above
gavss us the plow and loom, and wilI be lovillgly remembered as a — ns.
j quote(, T o rds
incontroverSlv
“ThonV t^l 001 e d lh e " ° rId! benefactor of the human race.”
“He knew that man must he the show, he can only fail of a good
suner ,-, h
8 aiU,i ,e ™on8teys of A,ld what w‘ll lead to this time providence of man.
and glorious immortality, uot only
to man .hTn ®"d tl‘°“ ha8t 8'7en when H umanity will be the only
“He did not believe in religion
name and fame, but in corrcla
h ast 1-eoA If,ne n8P , e , ” ? '
ou I religion, he tells us in his beautiful and science, hut in the R kuoion tive and endless reality, by the fail-
w r it.. i hB 7 C° rdS ° f t h ? T 8’ lribute 10 hi8 friend’ and mine> 0F S cience —that is to say, wisdom «re of the Liberal world to become
an 1 6? ! ’
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Elizur Wrigbt:
glorifi,-d
'0™. ‘he savior of onr ‘he receiver, conductor and correla-
craft c
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“But this we know: good deeds race—religion that conquers preju- five-transmitter of liis life and soul
wondr
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• u'“. T are “ever childless. A virtuous ac- dice and hatred, that drives all work to future generations. Unless
weig e t i e tion does not die. Elizur Wright
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scattered with generous hand the enables, lengthens and enriches life, Leader are realized now by those
“ Thou art the teacher of every - Prec*0,ls seeds, and we shall reap that drives from every home the who are wholly or in part Liberals
•H’ue, the enemy of every vice, dis- the golden grain. His words and wolves of want, from every heart (‘hat is, liberated from the old
overer of every fact. Thou hast acts are ours, and all he nobly did the friends of selfishness and fear creeds and superstitions), and un-
given the true basis of m orals-the is living still.”
and from every brain the monsters
they speedily prepare efficient
,rigin and office of conscience.
And in his, if possible,
still no- of the night.
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