the TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, JANUARY 25, 1900.
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the best of earth for all time, when
life is .-pent in “laying up treasures”
in a sky “heaven,” or hunting tra
ces of a “summer land,” both of
which are scientifically as utterly
impossible as the “firmament” of
Genesis.
Men and brethren let us think
over these things and learn for what
we are living.
oring a great advocate or a great
G R E A T S P E C IA L O F F E R — $ 3
orator than by perpetuating the $ 3 -
principles to which he devoted his
geuius and life.
Were not my activity limited by
age I should personally devote ray-
self to the prospect o f realizing an
Ingersoll Chair which the Liberal
I niversity has so promptly and
gracefully sanctioned. Monuments
are memorials, but do not teach
An Ingersoll Chair.
principles — a University does.
fl Dew Tamilv medical tUork
Gibbon’s words—“All that is hu
E ditor T orch of R eason :
bv Dr. 3. fi. greer, GblcaaO'
man must retrograde if it do not
H IS book is up to (late in everv p a r
In the Torch of Reason for Nov. advance,” are true of Freethought.
tic u lar.
\ ery faithfully yours,
¿3, I read with pleasure the com
I t tells you how to cure yourself
by sun pie an d h arm less hom e rem
• G eorge J acob H olyoake .
munication by Mr. H. L. Green, of
edies.
Eastern Lodge, Brighton, 1 Jan
It recom m ends no poisonous or
a suggestion that I made to him re-
uary, 1900.
T
d angerous dru g s.
v o rd am i168 n m pIe connDon-sense m ethods in
specting the foundation of an “In
ac cor lance w ith n a tu r e ’s laws,
gersoll Chair” in the Liberal Uni
th e s u ^ o n ’s k"dferee d an g ero “ 8 ^ P e r im e t s with
The Liberal U niversity.
versity of Oregon.
Monuments,
methods^8 h°W tO 8aV® bea,th and ,iie b-v 8afe
BY J. D. SHAW’.
libraries and other memorials of a
I t is e n tirely free from technical ru b b ish .
splendid career, are gratifying and
how to avoi Vryv en tio n - th a t h is
know
d,8®*8e th a n to ta k e any m edicine
instructive proofs of the public ap
1 he Porch of Reason reports the as a cure
preciation, which Ingersoll so nobly Liberal University at Silverton, Or I !t
how typhoid and o th e r fevers can be
X
both
p
revented
ami
cured,
and
gives
th
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best
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earned. I disparage none of these egon, as being in a flourishing con th e n a , c a ta rrh , co n su m p tio n , ap p en d icitis and t v e r V
“ ien t ,or ,a KriPpe. dip-
proposals; I would assist them all
dl 8C a 8 e '
dition, and,though I have not been I m X ? " a ' lTCrti8« " e " t - » I has no & e X k ,
were not the gods so poor that they
It has lei
" “*• of a n ti-to x in e .
an enthusiast^ advocate of such
had little to give me.
th e safest
But this is one form of distin movements, inclining rather to the ah
¡„ ChicBg<1> Profe8Bor Qf
guished remembrance which has opinion that we should expend all ~ ~ ~ H. Greer, the author, is a „ra. nici.,,,
fl College President’s testim or*
»«•«lto-Urinary D iseases in th e College
much to commend it. Monuments our efforts in trying to secularize
P rof W>. H. C ook . for thirty years Dean Of the I r t
i ,' “ 1 S u r Ke r y> P b y s i c i a n - i n -
cannot be seen everywhere, or re the public schools and state uni C in c i n n a t i P h y iU o - M e d ie a i C o lle g e , writes t«, '-Jiief to th e H a rv a rd M edical I n s titu te
t h o r s follows
.a n d h as w ritte n m any works of value to
ferred to often, while a Chair in a versities for the maintenance of the a I u havee-n^)ne,i
your b°ok. . A phy,ician in th e ’th e profession an d nublie
University educates students in the which we are all taxed, still I would i.'iST;,,
know *,ow toCBreforth»‘ I.
118 book has 800 paces, is n eatlv
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L 11 GJ hound in cloth w ith gold le tte rs an d „ i i
rm a tio n need ed an d In
principles of which Ingersoll was rejoice to see any such enterprise d u n ty g u . * 1 - e o u th r e Inn | c k o g p iv ie e s cu th n e re in a f d o ily
u n d e rs ta n d , i c o n
be se n t postpaid to anv ad d ress on re
ru t n a m in g th e m e o f a n y p o iso n .
so brilliant an exponent, who in prosper if conducted upon Liberal ; gt a tu n' a h te e tin y o g u s on
ceipt
of price, $3.00.
tr ic tly to tin- use o f n o n -p o fso n o u s rem -
I e,He - t l m o n e tr u e p rin c ip le t h a t sh o u ld g u id e all
their turn may diffuse them in ev principles as this one seems now to I e» m e n t f f dlrea.-e, a n d which I h a v e a d v o c a te d In SPEGIAl OFFFR «pedal arrangem ent
I my I" act ice f o r f o rty years o r more.
PHYSICIAN in t .T i -
Oreer’ w e offer
ery land.
be.
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T o u rs tr u ly ,
tr k l a n o n for one year for only PQ HA
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the price of the book a’one.
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I know of no Liberal University
I have not in the past refrained
in Europe. I was gratified at see from expressing my dissent to cer
ing one announced in your paper; tain things regarding this institu-
T h e G re a t
and when I saw Mr. Wakeman’s tution, and having done so, I have
name as one of the Professors, there incurred the displeasure o f certain
could be no doubt that the Univer members of the University Com
sity was Liberal in the best sense— pany. These things in no way
Need to Suffer from A ny Diseas©.
not only political, but mental. affect me unfavorably toward the
M hen I read Mr. Underwood’s pa institution as it now appears to be
' E lix ir
per in the Freethought Magazine conducted, and its management is
u ia -a -
' B a c te r ia c id e
V IT ^ -O R E
E u c a ly p tu s O il
commending the University, I hereby assured that in whatever I
O r e - O lin e
doubted not that they could devise may have said in the past or may
M e d ic a t e d S o a p
the subjects for treatment from the say in the future concerning their
PEARL W. GEER
A g en t
Ingersoll Chair and submit them movement, I then had and will con
to the governors of the University. tinue ever to have only the good of
S ilv e r t o n , O r e g o n .
For the expansion of the Free- true Liberalism at heart. We are
thought movement, trained lectur- in an unorganized condition, and
ers are needed. Every recruit who there is more or less confusion
’ \
How to Make
enters the ranks of Reason means among us as to what course is best
an accession of intellectual force to be pursued, but we ought all to
and enthusiasm. But force and be agreed upon one thing, and that
T he G o v ern m en t n atio n alized th e P ostal S y stem , w hy n o t also
zeal are like health and valour in is the freedom of opinion and of
in
. P a?.,’ U>!dby C-
¿L A & ffiS S
the soldier, and are of much more speech.
value in battle when trained.
I note that Mr. T. B. Wakeman,
U N C LE S A M ’S
Knowledge, daring and courtesy, late of New York City, has with his
aJe the essentials of propagandist«, family removed to Silverton and
H O M IL IE S ON F IN A N C E
and in these Ingersoll excelled. united his fortunes with the Uni
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