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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1900)
Sue h t R eason . VOL. 4. T hings That W ill Live ' NO. 1. acquired m div.dusl ego. It aI>,. fam i|„.<9 “ has a profound influence upon the the best of „ A , 8 , ’ “re Oregon School Libraries, Lecture BY J . A. EDGERTON. acts of his life, f it is ,he Socia' ' ’ ,ndlvlduRl|y. if not and E ntertainm ents. Altruistic, H uman E g o 1 ’’ i * l’roduct <>f the virtues which ^ I heke is nothing will live so long as • W our ancestors have bequeathed to A Speech by p ^ f . T . B. W akem an , of the L I. eral U n iv e rs ity , S ilv e rto n . Oregon, durln As the years go rolling on. w ’ • us- d«*P>'e our tendency to create It comes irresistibly, like the light Get a“ » ° n “ SChO° ' L ,b r- r ‘es. How t " e are speaking of that species new habits for ourselves to wrest Get and How to Use th e m .” a t th e Orego r i i ^ nVnie Pearly gates of dawn, S tate Teacher s Association, held at th 1 11 ^bright6 W° rld WitH k8 pre8ence of cerebral sensibility which mover ourselves from the bonds’of hered- apltol at Salem , Decmbr 28, 1899. both man and anim als to seek th. ity, and to build up in ourselves While the hosts of evil in wild affright, de ......' And minions of wrong, like shapes of company of their v congeners, ndependent good v o genw e, to IO ae- - r i m n i i o originality? rig in a lity f T The h e good J’rof. John B. Horner presented a ver night, rive satisfaction from Iheir m u tu a l. inst'ncts which we may have do a .le paj>er on this subject, and Pro* Have fled away and are gone. relations, to love others, and to de- ” e obtain them from the spirit of G. A. Gregory ami J. M. M artindal Ihere is nothing on earth that is half so [ X n ‘°m be f ' T i ° th erS - U i s i - he Ceht' ,r y ' frOm ,h e cold I followed m discussion, and then Prof strong altruism, of. winch the first stage is j'" g » f >he day, which analyses the " akeman took part as follows;— As the cause th at is built on Truth. It may seem to die at the hands of wrong indnese and the last devotion: | motives and the effects of all acts M r . P resident and F ellow T each But time goes on and the years are lung;’ It will come again, like the poet’s song, e most powerful physiological and mathematically calculates its ers of O regon ; io live in immortal youth. Impulse next to egoism, although it | interests? No, we receive them Can any good thing come out of IS only an indirect form of egoism. . fro'n our predecessors. We are | Nazareth,” which may be inter o love and to be loved, next to honest, proper, and loving because preted in Western dialect: Can any eating, drinking, and acting, is the our fathers and grandfathers were good thing come out of New York? re need of children. It remains Otherwise, how could the nat- From the many accounts of politi intense to the age of puberty, and i ur»li»l and the Freethinker exDlain cal and other corruption, the ex j ? 2 J " Ur 10 the day "hen the in- the flagrant contradiction which tremes of wealth and monopoly, dividual enters into the arena of exists between his conduct and his shaded by extremes of dependence serious life. I n the old man who reasoning? He sees only brute and misery, you might be tempted has no longer any of the cares of reality, he establishes the sad truth, to say, nothing good, nothing we Mow Social Science S ettles the existence, it resumes its rights and deduces the consequences of it, and ought to listen to, can come from War of the Three Egos. sp ead s over his grandchildren. yet he is unable to free himself there. Net we cannot but remem In the adult, in the moments of irom the most generous aspirations ber that the important and lately BY DR. PAUL TOPINARD. respite which the struggle leaves »f his altruism. He places friend introduced plan of “Public School h im , it is his repose, refuge, and ship in the front rank and practices Saving Banks, ’ admirably present . , ---— o*'» «Hu - -- '- * * *• *1 rv «11 N every individual, as we have recompense. How sad life would i M ’hy? Because the spirit of ed to ur this morning by Prof. R. bp nithnn« __ 3-1 • endeavored to show, conduct be without friendships! In the v:____ his ancestors is perpetuated in him, D. Resseler, came from Long la- is the outcome of three fac bosom of his family the wife satis because he is their continuation. land City, New York. Nor can we tors. The first is the ego which is fies the needs of the heart rather Yves Guyot, who professes egoism ! that the contest which woi inherent in the animal and exists than those of the senses. The hus as the sole principle of individual for our country and us the Publi. in man as in all animals—with band, who is less faithful in the conduct in society, writes as fol- Sch°°l system was largely, if no this difference, that man having second regard, is loyal as to the lows: “ When I see a child beaten, chieflY> fougbt out in New York more intelligence, this ego assumes first. Man undoubtedly domestic and hear it cry, when I see a w o - lw^len William H. Seward, after in him a high authority. It is the ated the dog by altruism, and every man weeping, when la m the wit-1 wards Lincoln’s great Secretary o guide and guardian of the individ day we see him creating bonds of ness of suffering, I am divided m to jS,tate’ wa® governor, and Horae ual, it has no object but the needs attachm ent to himself in the most two persons. Another ego feels I (’reeley,the principal editor in tha of the individual and their satis different kind of animals by simply these pains. . . . All my fibers , State* Thence followed the plai faction, it is devoted entirely to asking for reciprocity. Altruism is are set in vibration; the old blood ■ furn,'8b«ng free school books tf these objects; it is egoism incar the first source of sociability, as we of the soldier, the corsair, the h u n t-! lll° 8Cbolars, to be kept by them nate. I his is the anim al ego which have already demonstrated, and it er, which runs in my veins, seethes and their families upon leaving the we have portrayed in such somber is its consecration under its mul- within me. . My instincts | i 8chooJ’ * as «eips heIP8 io family educa educa — unuer us niui- ' 111' “ 1 . . colors. The second factor is the . ------- - tIple forms of kindness, indulgence, imPeI nie to act.” He speaks tion" tion. Then 1 hen next next followed followed in in fur fur- product of habits of feeling, think- tolerance, self-deuial, sympathy, It is no longer the egoist ther aid of educatio« the establish mg, and acting as they are formed chanty, generosity, devotion. This who >8 talking, but the altruist by ment of a 8rna11« ««eful and inter m ancestors and bequeathed to the 18 the reason why, in spite of all heredity. * esting school library in each dis individual in the shape of predis- ,he objections which may be raised The establishing, or re-establish tr'Ct Pardon the8e allusions position, which when confronted to assisting the unfortunate, no ing, of the customs which“ re S " .............................. the beginnings of things, because ; th conditions similar to those VOICe 18 ever raised against it, and adapted to social hanniness and wish to make some suggestions upoi winch have engendered them, are «»at there is no difference o, opin- their progressive c o n s o E o n £ the motion before us, which is t< . i priately developed and have ° n except as to the means. It is heredity; the ego w ith m o limit school libraries in this stat< ighty influence on the acts of the only physiological force which acting automatically in t h . d * " ^ ’ to Dictionaries, books of Reference ", weighty the individual. individ..., This „ the ance8. can check in the organism itself the tion which X e t y d e ^ H t o b ' T T the _______u Classics, and such magazines and tral ego. The third is the product impulses of egoism and the many best; the individual shaped by man papers as will conduce to the mor of the habits of the individual him- secondary forms which egoism as- as he shapes a plant or an animal al« and welfare of the scholars. acquired during infancy and SUme8- ¡conformably ,o the needs of society, This is the substance of the resolu the course of his life, depending on jusdee as the regulator, and love as tion. Of course it will be merely is maternal and primary educa tion j . ’."i “ ith these two elements, aitru- *»e ’deal such, in fine, is our advisory to the school authorities _.1 «1. ting on bt^has associC?m,r T Wh0“ i8maS the » - ’-habits and social 8yi,e“ - that be, but coming from this body pies which h a v /h UP° n , 8 e3tam' | instincts as the means, the desired Herbert Spencer, who concludes it may have a weight that will the meihods of T Wil' S‘t8ined- What 1 " ” e d° re«ardi"* «»’ necessity of make it a law; and that is doubt lug to W hich h t'ng a> nd ? " ‘k' for’ What 1 wkh to see s e,,eralized developing altruism and certain less why it is moved by Prof. Mar »¡»seif u " n i e h/ S abah°dr : d in 80<:ie‘y - wi‘» ^ y one jo in in g ' hereditary habits, is wrong “ h " tindale. »a« formed a t ,'hea?nWh,Ch ’ ob,ain il>i a '’« n0‘ Precisely what expressions of despair at the dose The first question is, does it go " L ," J . w .d ” far enough? It excludes any speci T h is „ , b , „ „ „ b In o p , bliJ men and representative works of the vast mass of living literature There is nothing can live but what is good, Nor trium ph but what is just. r he sword in a brother’s gore imbued b h a ll eat and corrode with ru st; in l ii r 8pi\ ,It .of love an<1 brotherhood \vn-i tv6 td II.8 beauty is understood; " hile the empires founded on force and blood Shall crumble away in dust I