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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.
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