T H E TO R C H OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON , D EC EM B ER 21, 1899.
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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
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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;
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have placed oui[ t-rjump caitd and
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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
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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)
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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 .
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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?
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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 ;
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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
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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!
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ences of Biology and Sociology thus bound co p y, post p a id .
become com m entaries upon, and
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