'"'fr f RECEIVED V \ MAR 1 O 19ü4 ^fRIOOlCAV 5 ^ - ÓU6HT lORCH ¡tU¿ R eason . “TRUTH BEARS THE TORCH IN THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH.”— Lucretius- VOL. 3. SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2), E. M. 299 (A. D. 1899.) The Phantom Ship. NO. 50. mais have combined into a kind of mind which makes up the sphere of Our conscious ego covers a very higher social org nization. But, consciousness. narrow space. Only one or two BY EUGENE LEE-HAM ILTON. while in the republic of ants, which The spheres of the peripheral and certainly no more than a few ’ e touch Life’s shore as swimmer’s is of a much higher order, the ideal a,»d I he central soul are not dis ideas can at one and the same time from a wreck Who shudder at the cheerless bond of social interests and that of tinctly separated by a definite be accompanied with consciousness. a political sense of duty unites all boundary. The transition from the How poor would we be, if our men land they reach, And find their comrades gathered on the individuals as free aud indepen one to the other is almost imper tal existence were limited to that. the beach Watching a fading sail, a small white dent citizens, in the Siphonophore- ceptible, and although there is an Happily, we can constantly derive speck— republic the members of the com enormous amount of peripheral new vigor and recreation from the The Phantom Ship, upon whose ample munity are by bodily connection soul-activity that is never illumin spheres of our unconscious soul-life. deck There seemed awhile a homeward riveted like slaves directly to the ated by, and apparently can never —[Tne Soul of Man. place for each; The crowd still wring their hands and yoke of their communal unity. be accompanied with, conscious still beseech. Still, even in this close coherence ness ( let me only mention the ner Darwin’s flethods. But see, it fades, in spite of prayer and each person is endowed with an in vous activity of all the details of beck. Let those who hope for brighter shores dividual soul of its own. If sever digestion, the work done by the BY FREDERIC MAY HOLLAND. no'm ore Not mourn, but turning inland, brave ed from the common stem, it can kidneys, the liver, etc.,) there is ly seek move about and live and have an also a vast neutral territory which he tolerant method of thought What hidden wealth redeems the shape independent being. The entire sea- is now conscious, now unconscious. less shore. has gained greatly in pop The strong must build stout cabins for nettle, as a whole, also possesses a The main tracts of this neutral ter ularity since Darwin proved the weak; Must plan and stint; must sow and reap will of its own—a central will, on ritory, which, according to our its capacity to solve the problem of and store; which the single individual de wants, may not be or may be con the origin of man. The possibility For grain takes root though all seems pends. It possesses a common sen nected with consciousness, might that all form» of life, even the high bare and bleak. sation which at once communicates fairiy be included in the term cen est, are results of a natural process of gradual development has often The Nature of Ego or Soul Life. the perceptions of the single in tral soul. There are innumerable nerve been suggested by poets and phil dividuals to all the others. Thus, each of the Medusa-citizens might ganglions in our body, whose work osophers. The probability was BY DR. PAUL CARUS. is steadily performed without our much discussed by men of science well exclaim with Faust: rofessor H jeckel says: “ ‘Two souls, alas! do dwell within my being conscious of it. Indeed, it is early in the nineteenth century; breast.’ the n.oallest part of the psychical but it was not until 1858 that suffi “ The Siphonophores or “The egoistic soul of the individ processes going on within us, o f cient evidence was presented to colonial sea-nettles are found floating on the smooth surface of ual lives in compromise with th® which we become conscious. This justify acceptance of evolution as fact by no means proves that un anything better than merely a the tropical seas, yet only at cer social soul of the community. “Woe to any Medusa, that in the conscious activity proceeds without theory. Twenty-one years had then tain seasons and not in great num bers. They belong to the most infatuation of egotism would break any feeling. It proves only that elapsed since Darwin began a long gorgeous formations of nature’s away from the communal stock in the feeling of these peripheral gang series of investigations. In the inexhaustible wealth, and whoever order to lead an independent life! lions stands in no direct connection first place, he collected an irresisti has been fortunate enough to wit Unable to perform all the particu with the conscious life of our cen ble number of cases of the influence ness the sight of living siphono lar functions that are indispensable tral soul. The feeling of periphe o f environment in causing varia phores, will never forget the glori to its self-preservation, most of ral ganglions mu.-t be of a lower tions in structure, and of the ten ous spectacle of their wonderful which were performed by its sever kind, it is extremely vague and dency of such variations to be in forms and motions. These siphon al fellow-citizens, it needs must dim in comparison with that of herited. Most men who accepted ophores are best compared to a soon perish, if it be detached from central soul-life, where, by a spe these propositions admitted their floating flower-bush, the leaves, its old companions. For one Me cialization, it has become extraor insufficiency to account for the blossoms, and fruits of which look dusa of the Siphonophore can only dinarily strong. Sometimes, how- multiplicity of species; but the ex like polished crystal-glass of the float, another only feel, a third only ever, in abnormal conditions of planation became complete when most graceful forms and delicate feed, a fourth only catch prey and things, caused by disease, the feel Darwin discovered that any plant repel enemies, etc. Only the har- ing of the peripheral ganglions may or animal which is peculiarly fit for colors. “Each single appendage of the monius co-operation and the recip be so in ten si fled that we do become survival in the continual struggle floating bush is a separate Medusa, rocal support of all its members, conscious of it in the form of pains for existence is likely to become largely represented in the next gen an individual in itself. But all the only the communal consciousness, a,,(^ ^he various kinds of aches, The peripheral and central soul- eration. A spontaneous variation different Medusae of the community only the central soul, linking all through division of labor have as together in bonds of faithful love, life continually intertwine. The which prolongs the life of its pos sumed different specialized forms. can impart a lasting stability to labors of conscious activity that sessor may thus become not only One part of the Medusa-community the existence of both the individ- ™ay have been performed with the more common but more firmly controls simply the natatory func uals and their totality. In the intensest attention, will sink down fixed in successive generations, tion, another the reception of food same manner also in human affairs, into the night of unconsciousness, until a new species is established. To this tendency Darwin gave and digestion, a third sense-percep- only the faithful fulfilment of polit- j and vice versa, unconscious memo- lion, a fourth defense and aggres- ical and social duties by the citizens fies of the past, that * seem irredeem the name “natural selection;” but 8ion, a fifth the production of eggs,, of a country ensures the permanent ably lost to our recollection, con this term naturally implies a de tinue to live; they sometimes com- j liberate choice by some superhuman etc. All the different functions existence of civilized states.” which a single Medusa performs, [So far Prof. Haeckel. Then Dr. bine with other, kindred or antago- power. Herbert Spencer proposed nistic, ideas, and then their logical the phrase, “survival of the fittest;” are in the present case thus distri- Carus comments thus:] Man no less than the colonial results only, the product of their but it must be remembered that buted among the different citizens of the sea-nettle colony; and all the sea-nettle possesses a double soul, combination, unexpectedly and sud- the fitness is not necessarily that of individuals have transformed their The peripheral soul of man consists den ly flash upon the surface of our greater moral worth.—[Liberty in bodies to accord with their respect of the many different activities of conscious being. And we—i. e., in the Nineteenth Century. such cells as do not stand in a di this case, our central soul—do not ive duties. Religion and morality may live “As in a community of ants, so rect relation to the central soul-life know whence they come. They 10 the Siphonophore-republic, a of his organism. And by central haunt us like voices of spirits from under the same roof, and yet not be blood relations.—[Ex. number of differently formed ani- soul we understand that part of our a distant beyond. P