THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON- OREGON, JANUARY U , 1900. of the many good, great and learn-' well-informed Christiane themselves ed men who have borne testimony acknowledge it. Now ¡a our oppor- to the faith. Of the many good, tunity to build—to give the world great and even more learned men “something better”! Can we meet who renounce it, they never speak the demand? but to abuse. I am weary of all this evasion and intellectual dis The Great Issue to be Decided honesty. Young people are fast by Evolution and flan. learning that the principal differ ence between the great men who VV e give on the front page of this t i l / believe and the great men who dis Torch the decision of the greatest believe is a money attachment on question by one of the most compe- Mr OREGON. one side and disinterestedness on tent of men — Dr. Paul Topinard, the other. Intellectual deception will invariably result in intellectual the distinguished French natural contempt; and this accounts for ist, It is the conclusion of his thousands remaining from the work, “Science and [vs.] Faith’’ (published by the Open Court Pub 'church. i c i u i k y — 10 9 9 -0 0 . lishing Co., Chicago, 111., price “Again, 1 do not go to church, be $1.50). J. EARL HOSMER, Ph. I)., B. S. 1). p RES cause it evades taxation—evades AT *1 Supc p n tendent D epartm ent of Cosmology.’ In considering and weighing this bearing its just share of the public Mathematics, I hysical Sciences, Dyna decision of the wars or contentions i am ics . burdens, thus establishing a class of the three Egos now struggling in ABEL A. LEONARD, M. ]>., M. E.,* rule, always dangerous in repub Superintendent D epartm ent of Biology. the Court of the Future, the first lics. I oppose it, also, for its dis Anatomy, I hysiology, Animal Electricity, thing to be borne in mind is that it position to encroach upon the State. 1 hysiologtcal Psychology, Microscopy. is made by a great naturalist upon The constitution specifically de and pursuant to the laws of social THADDEUS B. WAKEMAN clares that no public moneys shall and historical evolution. The ten Superintendent Department of Sociology and Law be appropriated for the support of General H.story, Sociology, Law, Linguistics, dency of the great current of hu any religion or creed. In the face man history has been, as he shows, Ethics. of this most vital law, which our generally progressive from its an- MINNIE P. HOSMER, L. S„ B. S. D„ forefathers set down as one of the thropoidal stage, and the stages of , t - . Superintendent Preparatory D epartm ent, most important of the basic princi- the progress have been chiefly So History, English Grammar, Botany, Vocal pies of government, the church cial, cial, and and ar„ are g summed Music, asks for and accepts appropriations, formatjon of three E receives vast amounts in the way 1 The nlea nf , I LALL AV. GEER, M. G. H., S ecretary , t , i . , J ±ne PIea of the first, or animal Ego of salaries for chaplains and con- was pre8ellted ¡„ ,a8t Tor(;h ” Business Methods and Correspondence. stant direct appropriation by non- oext Ego jg t[)at o( , he MINNIE PRESTON, taxation. This is dishonest It ,s tribe, the Gens> whieh y Kindergarten and Primary Classes. not a disregard but open violation, incorporation of tlle ide a\ d of the constitution. It is class tiaI altruism of thg .,houge„ 1 SOPHIE WOLF, against mass. It ,s poor example. c)an> and whieh haJ Ug n Piano Music, Elocution, English Literature. In plain language, it is respectable heredity worked Qut CLARA WAKEMAN, heft In this respect the church and i„9titlltlons which 5ecau)e . Drawing and Painting. has always been and now is one of, jcai in the Feuda, g n if not the greatest, evils with which . Now the advent ,)f g t’ _ ALICE DAVENPORT. Stenography, Typewriting. men have had to deal. Every civ- new, a higher> altruistic Ego, the .bred government in the world, Ego of more get,era| anrf LOUIS RAUCH, Assistant, most notaolyat the present time, essary interests,will necessarily de- Bookkeeping, Commercial Arithmetic. Italy the very mother of the (ermine the life and general course LORA AMES, Assistant, church, is endeavoring to unload and functions of the two prior Egos • 1’hysiology, Hygiene. the awful burden. Il has proven Not that the Egoistic and Family itself a chain upon the neck of pro- J or limited Egoe wj„ be crughed ()u KATIE MATTESON, Librarian. gross. If it be to the good of a of existence. Not at alii They family, a State, to throw it off, of I will be as useful, if not more useful PROFS. HOSMER, WAKEMAN, GEER what help or good can it be to the ¡than ever, but they will become’ Lecturerson Religion of Science and Humanity. individual? If States find it an un- “ducts of sympathy” and enjoy- EMILY L. WAKEMAN, healthy factor in government, why ment under the protection of the Matron. 1 • • • should any individual regard it as higher integration of which they •D r. Leonard has consented to take this chair until somu nno a necessity? Even our great insti will be co-operative parts. We see can be found to fill it permanently. " e one tutions of learning are gradually how this resulted in forming our eliminating it. I have many other political Federal Union, the States S T U D E N T S M A Y E N T E R A T A N Y T IM E . reasons. I think it a sin and a were not destroyed, but became the We are now in our New building, whieh gives us room crime to inscribe upon the pure, imperishable components of an in for increased attendance and much better facilities for white page of a child’s mind, when destructible Union. Indeed, the teaching. For terms and further particulars, address, it is wholly defenseless — unable greatest liberty ever known will re- 7£- a , either to choose or distinguish for suit under the great law of evolu-1 1 C c l W • V jr C e f, S e C y itself—the various cabalistic char tion, as stated by Herbert Spencer, SILVERTON OREQON. acters, the hieroglyphics of a rude that the differentiation and liberty and barbarous people, their dreams, I of the parts, organs and their func- mars. .. ........... ipars, terrors, vices, myths, tradi tions will be increased by the en tions and superstitions, and stamp larging integration protecting and t 'm as ineffaceable facts, thus hiu favoring them all. FRIENDS OF LIBERAL AND SECULAR EDUCATION dcring the development of its are earnestly reminded that the above University is in act Dr. Topinard’s point as a natur natural functions. This is enough alist is well made when he inti ive and harmonious operation, but that it must be provided with sufficient means to finish its building, now approaching comple -How why I, and millions hav- mates that the birth and growth of tion and partly occupied, so that a paying number ol students lng the same opinion, do not go to this sublime Social, Altruistic Ego, can >e accommodated. Please to subscribe, or obtain subscrip c ' irc^> and why millions of others naturally gives the general social tions, for our Stock, and send memoranda of property, books or 0,gbt not.” apparatus you can furnish. E Or progress of our time no little pain, } The Christian churches, are, in- disturbance and apprehension. But J. E arl H osmer , President of Faculty. eed» going to pieces. 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