T orch
of
R eason .
“TRUTH BEAR5 THE TORCH IN THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH.”— Lucretius.
VOL. 3.
SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, E. M. 299 (A. D. 1899.)
Let Us Alone,
NO. 49.
cally on the cells or tissues, and more doubt, the centralization of The Thanksgiving Home Festival
the extremity of the antenna will the age is effected, it has found its
of Joy.
BY CHARLES MACKAY.
wrinkle. If it be increased, it will true expression; seemingly the ego A Lay Sermon at the Thanksgiving Celebra­
tion at Liberal Hall, Silverton,
be reflected to the nearest ganglion, has been transported from the cord
Oregon, Era of Man, 299,
any —and y e t o u r fate is one,
and
the
antenna
and
jaws
will
be
to
these
new’
organs,
but
it
is
so
on­
A nd little , a fte r all, we crave—
E n jo y m e n t of th e com m on su n , set in motion. If it is strong, the ly in appearance. It is a new ego,
BY T. B. WAKEMAN.
F air passage to th e com m on grave ;
entire animal will respond to the ‘sui generis’ aud intelligent, that
Our bread an d fire, o u r p lain a ttire ,
reaction. Does an ego intervene in has been formed. The ganglia of P resid en t H osm er, of th e L iberal U n i­
The free possession of o u r own.
R ulers, be w ise! an d kings and czars,
this last case? If the co-ordinated the body continue their organic roles v ersity , was in tro d u ced by Louis R auch,
Let us alo n e—le t us alone.
th e p re sid e n t of th e m eeting, and read
movements have already been pro­ and maintain their petty individu­ th
e T h anksgiving P ro clam atio n s of VViJ-
The world is th e abode of m en,
duced
and
repeated
under
the
same
iiam
M cK inley, P resid en t of th e U n ited
alities. The cord fulfills the same
And no t of dénions sta rk an d blind ;
S
tates,
T heodore T. G eer,
And E d e n ’s self m ight bloom again
conditions and a habit has resulted, functions and also preserves its G overnor an d of of th H e on.
S
ta
te
of Oregon (th e
If m en did justice to m an k in d .
la
tte
r
Proclam
ation
having
been sen t by
then
this
assumption
is
useles.
But
powerful individuality. The hemi­
We w ant no m ore of N a tu re ’s store
th
e
Secretary
of
S
tate,
w
ith
th e seal of
T han N atu re m ea n t to be our own ;
if the impression is novel, if there spheres are simply a superadded the S tate a ttac h ed .) The ch airm
an th e n
M asters, and regents of th e e a r th ,
introduced
M
r.
W
akem
an,
who
m ade
is
occasion
for
the
modification
of
organ—the organ of thought.
Let us a lo n e —let us alone.
th e following address, w hich was well
the act—in a word, if initiative is
Ganglionary animals (iusects, received by a large and ap p reciativ e
Your m eddling b ro u g h t us grief and care
needed — then necessarily an ego etc.) do not think; they sefiect im­ audience.
And added m isery day by day ;
W e’re not so foolish as we were,
must intervene. But where,on this pressions, by associating or not as­ M r . C hairman and G ood P eople
Nor fashioned of such ductile cla y ;
hypothesis, is its seat? In one or sociating under given conditions
Your p etty ja rs, y o u r wicked w ars,
of S ilverton :
Have lost th e ir c h arm , th e g ild in g ’s in several ganglia together? I con­
the action of several ganglia. Ani­ If we are proud of anything it is
gone;
clude, in several. Morphological mals having hemispheres — that is that we are not only law-abiding
V ictorious m a rsh a ls, v au ltin g kings,
L et us alone— let us alone.
unity does not exist as yet in the to say vertebrates — alone think. but law-honoring citizens, and when
Tho’ dw elling in a little isle,
ganglion of the insect. The insect Rudimentary thought, at its begin­ both the President of the United
We bear no h a te to o th e r lands,
has its sense of individuality, it ning in the lizards of M. Delbceuf, States, and the Governor of our
And th in k th a t Peace on e a rth m ig h t
sm ile
discriminates what is parcel of it­ in the crocodiles of the Nile, and in State under its great seal, sends us
If we and o th ers joined o u r h a n d s ;
self from what is extraneous to it. fishes generally; having less value a “recommendation’’ to put up “fer­
In R eason’s sp ite why should we fight?
W e’ll war no m ore, we’re w iser grow n. It has its subjectivity, but this sub­ perhaps at this period than appar­ vent prayers and thanksgiving” it
Q uibblers and s tirre rs u p of hate,
jectivity, its ego, is diffuse. All the ently it has in certain ganglionary certainly becomes us to comply, so
Let us alone—let us alone.
fact? set forth by Sir John Lubbock ai £**»als; but already reaching con­ far as to meet and consider how
W hite m an or black, to us a lik e ;
in his work on bees and ants, and siderable heights in the hirns and Liberal, that is emancipated, people
Foem en of no m en will we live;
We will n o t lift o u r h a n d to strik e,
by other authors who have written mammals, attaining its highest in may make this recommendation
Nor evil for ad v an tag e g ive;
on this subject, confirm this con­ man, and always proportional to now reasonably useful. Now rea­
Our h ands are free to earn th e ir fee,
Our tongues to let th e tru th be know n. clusion.
the diverse morphological factors of sonably, we say,for we can never
So, despots, k naves, an d foes of rig h t,
At some unknown period in evo­ which it is the result! Through it forget that we now live in a new
Let us alone—let us alone.
lution a grand advance is made in the ego of the hemispheres inter­ heaven and earth, which science
Great, are our d estin ies ; our task ,
the nervous system. A series of venes, and at its leisure, more or has made an absolute fact to us
Long since begun, shall never end
U hile suffering h as a boon to ask,
ganglia arising from the zoonites less conscious of its motives of ac­ since the first Thanksgiving was
Or T ru th needs spokesm en to d efe n d ;
of a linear colony are fused into a tion, suspending, accelerating or observed by the Pilgrims around
U Hile vice or crim e pollute th e tim e,
W hile n a tio n s b le e d ,o r p atrio ts groan, long cord, the spinal cord of verte­
modifying the co-ordinated acts re­ Plymouth Rock.
Rulers, be wise! a n d m eddling fools,
brates. We know of no living ani­ lating to its exterior life, of which
Let us alone—le t us alone.
Let us then inquire how this
mal limited exclusively to this or­ the cord still remains the center of custom carne about, and what may
The Origin of the Ego.
gan, excepting the larva of the production. The scattered ganglia be its validity, propriety and prac­
ascidian and amphioxus.
But have their habits, the results of the tical uses now . In its American
BY DR. PAUL TOPINARD.
physiological experiments on ordi­ repetition of the same acts confirm­ form we certainly have it from the
nary vertebrates have indicated ed by time; the cord has its habits; Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth,
delicate question arises. what would he its functions. In the hemispheres have also their i Decern her 22, A. D. 1G20, E. M. 20.
Where, when, and by what this hypothetical organism certain habits, but of a different kind. The It originated with them because
mechanism is the sense of impressions will be converted into hemispheres alone, when their at­ they were “S eparatists ,” that is, of
personality formed which inheres movements by scattered ganglia in tention is sufficiently solicited,when these who had separated from the
in the merids, zooids and dfmes— the viscera and along the paths of the interest, pleasure or caprice of State religion and all control of re­
that is to say, the Ego? . . .
the nerves; others more iutimately the individual is at stake, and w hen ligion by the State, and wished to
In the generalized ganglionary connected with exterior acts, would they will it, are able to alter their make that fact apparent by having
period, at which we now are, acts have their centers of reflex action habits and those of the cord. They days and festivals other than the
are always deducible to an excita­ aud of co-ordination in particular alone represent the leasoning ego.
established State church. So they
tion followed by a reaction, but zones of the cord; those which play
It follows from this examination fixed upon the month before Christ­
with the three folRowing complica­ a controlling part and induce mod­ that the ego, such as we have ex­ mas as their Pilgrim Christmas, to
tions; (1) The conversion of the ifications of the preceding move- perience of it in ourselves, is the be for them a day of thankful
excitation into movement is no merits would end in the sensorial final product of a long evolution prayer and thanksgiving, not for
longer effected at the spot, but in ganglionary net of the cephalic ex- which can be reduced'to four stages, the birth of Christ, which they
the nearest ganglion; (2) the gan­ tremity of the cord. We say in the I i n the first, or in the solitary cells knew could not have been on that
glion discriminates between the dif­ net, because everything leads us to of the protist kingdom, it existed day, but for the close of the har­
ferent kinds of excitation and re­ believe that the ego is as yet dif- merely in a potential state. In the vest and the ingathering of “the
sponds by simple or co-ordinated fused«
second, or in the non-solidarized kindly fruits of the earth,” which
movements varying with the excit-
The last and greatest progress is colonies, it was presented in the was one result of the year’s toil.
ation; (3) the excitations occasion­ accomplished' when around the sen- form of partial and scattered egos To begin with then, Liberals may
ally pass beyond the ganglion aud sory ganglia of the extremity of the whose sphere was restricted to the note two things about this origin
spread in greater or less degree to cord a proliferation is produced of special functions with which the of our Thanksgiving. First, it was
others. Suppose an impression is the cells and nervous fibers, which group that each represented was the beginning of the break np
produced on the antenna of an in- gives rise to the cerebral hemi- clothed. In the third, or in the sol- of the Christ myth; and sec­
' pct- If it is slight, it will act lo- spheres. Henceforward there is no
ond, a step towards the separa-
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