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T H E TO R C H OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON , D EC EM B ER 21, 1899. 6 Individualists, Socialists and Spiritualists All Afloat. Instead of going into the m ystery business, as is generally supposed, N atu re seems ready to open up • • < w h » « m r t her STSTZ H erbert Spencer’s Essay ou the re sem blances of p h y sio lo g ical and social growths and processes. When those resemblances are thought of, a f,pr reading this wondrous history of the M edusa, we can only say, “ De te fabula n a rra tu r” , — Of m an this story is told,— of m an not only; ’S ir. ...neadinii have placed oui[ t-rjump caitd and CUOn. gee t-he f I’uits ©f ©ui; Qtjand trie- F@pv7 cja j functi<>n» of — co-operation Lini ikjiivvr'-.u v, -------- and - | £ __ F ■ progress are seen to he impossible U w ithout individual activity under j - ^ - p o s e s , . in a p ^ to ^ a n d origin, nature and co-operation of life cells, and their gradual working out into ganglia co-ordinated un- der central ganglia whosp action is / the Ego or soul? W ell, Professor Haeckel has found N ature explaining and un- folding this whole process as clear as daylight in the loosely organiz- innial Medusa M edusa (sea fsea nettles) nettles) ed 1 colonial Hci()Ug cerebrations” of the more in dependent ganglia( th e ‘‘voices”,etc., frOm the “spirit w orld”, as the un scientific spiritualist calls them )are not only heard, but duly regarded, Science, therefore, by the Medusa pja jDjy te jjH these w rangling and : conten(]j„g ganglionic organs, func- tions and partisans, when they evo- ; lute ashore, as individualists, so- cialists a nd spiritua 1 ists, cheertuiiy to give up euUivat<, „ co.()peration of “inte- g ra tive differentials” for the benefit (>f themselves and “ the rest of m an- k in d ” . Why not? great teacher, in ^ ^ ^ famoo# sa y in g . , • a • • 1 , 1 T he in te rp la y of the individual cells and ganglia in an organism was never more beautifully illus- trated. The individualist and so- cialist cells are seen to represent and 1,.perform lu n ctio nsquileindiepens- able to each other. W hether they “ T he greatest, th e h ig h est will or no, they are parts of one W ouldst thou seek? “ T he M edusa” nan teach it th e e ; integrative whole; and they learn W h at she unconsciously is, to help each other, though both are Consciously be th o u , T h at is a l l !” “ a ’ I at sea” and do it unconsciously. Then Dr. C am s takes up th e MSucjlgtl y u das Höchste, das G rösste? story i ii his “ Soul of M an” (publish- Die Pflanze k ann es Diel, le h r e n ; ‘J 'r W o a DU, i l l o n l n s ist, is t. Was sie w willenlos lished by the Open Court P u b lish Sei du es wollend, Das is t’s .” ing Co., Chicago, price $2), pp. 238- T. B. W. 248, and shows us how N ature ex- p lain seasily the often so-called“spir- , itual phenom ena of consciousness” . • When the actions oi these uncon- i scions or semi-conscious ganglia are brought into com m unication with ' the cen tral or ego-ganglia, often un- • expectedly, we did not know till Science told us, whence they came. . . . IS A BOOK O F . . . “ They h a u n t us like spirits from the d ista n t beyond.” Instead of “ I th in k ,” we have to say “ it th in k s” “ it comes to me”. But th a t “ it” , after all, is found to he a part of ourselves, o fo u r own nerve process On th e follow ing and es Hashing into consciousness. \\ e k in d red S ubjects : see all this in the nerve processes o f , the said Medusa, which are th u s S e lf C o n tro l shown to he a floating, living lot S e lf R e sp e ct of in d iv id u alists, socialists and vVhat is M o rality? sp iritu alists in embryo, working out W h a t is Ignorance and expanded by N ature to enable us to see ourselves as we really are. Fraud a C rim e For w hat are the higher anim als, H a b it, 2nd N a tu re and even man himself, hut sim ilar P oliteness tissues, organs, ganglia and fu n c tions, rearranged and folded by, W isdom and in order to meet, the new con E tc , e tc ., e tc . ditions of a land life? “ They find One of th ese c h a p te rs is th eir parallels in the well known W orth m ore to Young and old th a n th e and common facts of m ental activ Price of th e book. i t y — in facts th at every one can verify in his own experience ” IT SHOULD BE IN . . parallels which throw a flood of light upon all of the problems and £ *V E R Y “ m ysteries” of so-called abnorm al soul-life, as well as the vital pro cesses of the lower anim al life! S il (5)63) a n d ’’e c e lv e a But this is not all, for the sci- v 0 n e a tly c lo t h ences of Biology and Sociology thus bound co p y, post p a id . become com m entaries upon, and AG E j XTS W ANTED. the best means of illu stratin g and »xplaining each other. 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