ó THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON OREGON, JANUARY 11, 1900. The G reat Issue to be Decided It is not too much to pay that the by Evolution and flan. English speaking peoples are now S ilv e rto n T h o u g h t E xchange. to be simply overwhelming. The result was that existence here was actually thinking, working, voting MK. D. E. SWANK ON SPIRIT-SOUL. made more blessed by this possi C ontinued (roui 5th page. and, alas! fighting on this issue. bility of aid here and now, and he assures us that the race can not I. there any doubt whether the true Sunday evening, Jan. 7 communion hereafter with this host decline, and that the grand process Science of Evolution and Sociology If the witches of Macbeth had of superior and spiritual beings, of of social evolution can not be de points the way?—the Republic! been in charge of the weather they which all those we have loved must feated. But we can not carry the sugges- could hardly have given their spirit J certainly be a part, So far he holds very much the tion further. I pon no question, friends a heartier welcome of wind The lecturer was warmly ap- same position as Herbert Spencer, dornestic, foreign or international, and rain. But the audience was plauded at the close, but then he decidedly differs. In can the light of Science which falls there in full force. Even the “spook The discussion was opened by stead of turning around and fight from Dr. Topinard’s book fail of religions” of the churches failed to P resident H osmer . He did not see ing Social Evolution as the “com beneficent effect. T. B. W'. draw against a modern Liberal that the speaker had done more ing slavery”, or leaving it to work spook expounder. than revive and repeat the old as its way blindly, our French philos How Social Science S e ttle s th e The choir outdid themselves, and sumption, i. e., a “ principle” which opher shows that it is to the inter W a r of th e th re e Egos. Dr. C. H. Brewer, the President, was merely a word with nothing est of all men, individually and introduced the orator of the even behind it. A “principle” is neither Concluded from 1st page, collectively, to help forward this ing and his subject: “The Origin, a thing, a force, or power, nor a cause of co-operative integration, fer from him in this, that he relies Nature and Immortality of the law. It was merely an old habit to differentiation and justice in every upon the free play of individuals Human Soul.” The speaker open take a word to start with because way practicable. He says that by so and natural evolution, whereas we ed up by pleasantly showing how they knew nothing. But when the consciously guiding evolution, man believe it indispensable that man he had struggled towards what he lecturer said “power,” the modern may not only easily adjust his life should direct his own evolution. believed to be the truth. He made scientists had beaten him, for they and heredity to the new and per We, too, have had our moments of a very favorable impression by bis proved that all of the matter and haps harsh changes, hut also really doubt—not regarding the efficacy of voice, manner and evident sincer forces that went into any organism dictate their mode of inception and our system, but regarding the pos ity. When he settled down to bis were parts of the world or environ their methods and final results. In sibility of realizing it without the work, it was based upon the convic ment around it, and that all the this way, practically by his own intervention of too much authority; tion that in the organic world, com feeling or thinking was part of, de w ill, man becomes the creator of his but we have taken fresh confidence. mencing with the vegetable king pendent upon, and caused by the We believe unqualifiedly in the own future lot and fate on earth. dom, there was “ a principle ” which changes in the brain and nervous He may thus hope to make some great power of heredity, habit and scientists did not seem to under system. I his being so, the spirit what real his “Earthly Paradise”. unconscious impulse over our daily stand. It was this principle-power ual hypothesis at once dropped out, In all this matter of the future, acts. We are convinced that if so that made plants grow and assimi because all the facts which support Herbert Spencer was a reluctant ciety so desires it and comports it late from the air, and shrink from ed it bad been otherwise explained Balam of a prophet. His science self properly, it can in a few gener touch in the sensitive plant. A according to the scientific method. compelled him to say that the race ations transform sentiments and similar principle-power was more Plants, animals and meu grew and would“get there”,that some kind of manners, and adapt them to its prominent in animal life, where it thought by reason of chemical and a “Socialism” would come; but he needs. The useful instincts have became consciously sensitive, and vital assimilation, and the spooks had not the sympathy with it that sprurtg up of themselves in ani was properly called spiritual, and were not it. This was the end of Balam’s ass would have had, and mals. Why may they not, with which scientists tried to get rid of the spirit hypothesis to all reason did not particularly advise or en the assistance of reason, be created by calling it “instinct,” whatever able people, for Science has proved courage any one to turn in and in man? Speaking only of France, that might be. It was really the that there was nothing but a name help. He left it all to Evolution I have already seen about me for spirit-power, without which ani in it. and “Administrative Nihilism”, as the last ten years, certain indica mals could not grow or live at all. Of course if this spirit hypothesis Prof. Huxley splendidly described tions pointing to renovation; new Then when we come to man, we was not true it was not good. Its it. To this vigorous protestoi Prof. social classes will achieve success find the same principle and power immortality was chiefly one of Huxley we may now add the mild where the old have failed. No causing and controlling not only selfishness, and as long as it did no disproof and reproof of our Natur doubt there will be storms, good their growth and sensation, but also good it was not worth having, but alist Sociologist. Human effort and and evil alternations,but in the end to be at the bottom of their think it was evil because it prevented the will is one of the natuial factors of evolution, w’hich j/Toceeds only by ing capacity. This was the real attempts to better this world, by natural selection, heredity and ev oscillations and starts, will enter human soul under which the whole introducing anarchy—that is, con olution. Man must steer the hark on the right path. Let us not de body-system assimilated and acted. fusion—in our thoughts and pur of Human Destiny towards the re-1 spair. Man is too powerful to fail Now this whole “principle” did poses of life, for we were always at alizing of human scientific ideals, in reaching the end which he de not come simply revelations,” * - from the food of the . mercy . of “spirit * ---, sires. The golden age of humanity no less scientific because human. the plant, animal or man. In re- which might-upset everything as Could wiser wTords for this very is ahead of us, the sun of the twen gard to plants, the speaker said he the same time it ministers to our hour he spoken than those we have tieth century will be that of truth. had seen this proved. Plants,hesaid, selfishness. The proper and healthy quoted in this paper? They indi “Error is a Penelope who, without had been grown to weigh a pound thing to do is to get hold of the hu- " 7 ‘‘ “ f ......V ” ' B,w 01 the cate “the way out” of our most se wishing to do so, is incessantly raveling the texture which she has v ? ? Pot ,taken half of that j man immortality and let the spook rious difficulties by means of co-op urnoon . /¡w eight from the earth or air in business alone. Goodbye spooksi eration naturally and healthfully woven. Truth, on the other hand, which they had grown and been Then arose a venerable gentle - in our affairs, social, industrial and in the struggle of ideas for life,will euclosed. Of course, as in plants' man , well versed in the history of political. sooner or later bear off the victory.” so in animals and meu; no amount Spiritualism and its facts, He It is hard to close without apply —[Science and Faith. of materials could make growth un seemed to think modern phenome ing them to the internttional co-op less this spirit-principle different - - * was there. - na were quite « -- from the W M XZ eration, viz.,a consequent Federated A photograph has been taken of Republic of nations and peoples for the faculty of the Liberal Universi- As we did not know whence this °ld, and that Scientists had been spirit came, we should not be ex- compelled to admit that there was the benefit of all. This result is in tj,a n d Wv have them for sale at pected to know whither it went at “a something beyond” their grasp, cantrast with the benevolent but fifty cents each, postpaid. This is death, except to its own world, and and recited a formidable list of forceful assimilation of the mass of a splendid picture, 54x8 inches* • • « • into a vast, ~ imperial,, nil- I ¡mounted — on' a fine, large " c a / ’ t h mankind a t 'P ro v e d . Even such names and alleged facts. He itarv u t.ich must , „ , ’v r Every .- T , “ friend ecleBtlat8 a,lmtt tna‘ that “«“ ne,ther matter thought itary desnnti.m despotism, which end in 1 rende ready f„, for f framing. her matter tnougnt that“Materialists”were tnat"Mater,al,sts”were be- be- the calamities with which the Ro- of the Liberal Universityought to ! “h, H ° f a,’{ klnd ™ J " * - ooh lessened, iu the have o . ip of th„ u » 7 u in, b Hence thl8 conclusion: The world and that “the spiritual” would man Empire and Church have ( have one of these photographs. The spirit-soul was immortal and had resume its sway in its new form un afflicted the human race. What group consists of thirteen persons, „„j : , its own realm, from whence it an- der the lead of Scientists, such as issue has ever equalled the one thus and is a splendid show ing for < m r , . , p gel,ooj g r ur pcared to commence and aid new W allace, Crookes Cowes, Hare and presented iu importance? Shall the ___ Hfe here, or to warn or aid souls the Psychical Society. next stage of civilization result in . . | who were in sympathy with it. . . --------™ Mr. P ----- earl . W. G eer did not see Imperialism, the Papacy or “The re j ou acquainted with the The proofs that snch appearances the subject with the eyes of the last Republic of Man”and of the World? its of the Forstner auger bit? j were actually occurring he held, [Concluded on 8th page.]