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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, FEBRUARY 1, 1900. discovery o f science is a material Hr. Sw ank Explains. $ 3 — G R E A T S P E C IA L O FFE R — $ 3 thing, or substance, or a motion, or other property of such substance; Mr. D. E. Swank, who addressed or the relations which things, prop- the Silverton Thought Exchange, erties and relations have to each ; takes some exceptions to the write other. The Roentgen ray is a vi- up of his lecture in the Torch of oration of a material substance Reason, and we print the following which produces a chemical effect from him in explanation: upon a sensitized plate, and a feel- I did not say that there was prin- ing in the nerves and brain of the ciple in the vegetable kingdom human organism; and “wireless which scientists did not understand.J telegraphy’’ is a motion of the eth- What I did say was, that there is fl new Tamilv medical Work er caused at the transmitting sta- an indestructible spirit-essence per tv Dr. 3. R. Greer. GHicaao- dón, and extending continuously to vading the vegetable and animal H lS hook is up to d a te in every p a r where it affects a delicate instru- kingdoms clearly traceable and de tic u lar. J ment at the receiving station. finable, and I believe it is traceable I t tells you how to cure yourself ' In all the domain of Science, in into the mineral; and that this by sim ple an d h arm less hom e rem edies. cluding brain action and thought, spirit-essence contains life principle It recom m ends no poisonous or there is no element of the spiritual, which scientists do not seem lo un Tr u d an g ero u s d ru g s. ! a ^ : a„«e; ia ^ T a- : r ,,8e metbode fa or supernatural. The so-called derstand. spiritual element in man, includ The growth of plants was not the s u ^ n ’e k"u?” e d*”ger°“ exi*‘rime<" with ing the passions, the emotions, the mentioned in connection with spirit inefhSds1'“8 h°W 8aVe health and Ii,e b-v 8afc desires, devotional feelings, etc , are development, but was incidentally i t ¿ » eJ h ‘ r e ly fre e f .r o ' " t ‘ * h n i . a l ru b b ish , as natural and have the same ori referred to as a starting point to how b? »hvni Pr?.ven«‘° n - t h a t it is b e tter to know gin as the feelings of hunger and reason from things tangible to as™ . i r e 9ea8e to tak e m edicine thirst (that is, in a natural state, things not comprehensible by any I t teaches how typhoid an d o th e r fevers can I.- ____________________________ where they have not been intensi of the five senses, and to show that both p revented and cu red , an d gives th e I t s’nott «rrl‘,iCO" BU'n p tio n ’ « P P en Jtcitis and CTerv'Mh»“.'^ - 1’' ” '° r B r," l ie. d 'I - fied by “spiritual” training); they there were tangible effects produced Itrlia i t is not an a d v ertisem en t am i has nn • eVt r? o t' ,er disease. I t m akes uncom prom ising w ar oni v a c d n a H n ,^ t° i8e2,‘ are the direct result of some phys by intangible causes. It has 16 colored p lates show ing different le. n8e of « n ti-to x in e. ical need and desire. This is the We then proceeded to show that . I h i s book can n o t fail to please von If 1 8 ° f th e h u “ «n body. teaching of science, known and read spirit-essence acquired and pos and easiest m eans, do n o t delay g ettin g it ? ° U aFB ,ooklnB for h e alth by th e safest a u th o r, is a nrauti/iw ,. of all men who care to read and sessed from principle, and that it is t ' r - J n - H . G reer, th t e ------------- ----- -------- P hysician in C hicago, is P rofessor of Cestimon” r ’nary H iseases in th e College know. the framework or structure around cin°-F R College President’s tor thir,y years n- " the I ri,; r ; ,ClVe o ”’ SurKery- Physician-ih- The test of truth in science is the which the human tangible physical Cincmnati PhyHio-Medical College, write,, to C h e,f to th e H a rv a rd Medical In stitu te and has w ritten m any works of value to common sense of mankind “with form is evolved, and that life prin the author a., to low» the consensus of the learned”. In ciple, or sensitiveness, has its home to n . E v ,,y fa t a m n o ily i v . rh h , o . , u . , ld . . k t-......- n o w ............................ h ow to care fo r th .. e I T his liook has H00 natres j8 neatlv * in t v h v f th ^ h*’ “ : ‘ ’ 1,,!,1- w h ic h I s a h u m an r ig h t and hound in cloth w ith gold lette rs,a n d wifi ty . Y o u r book Rives th e in fo rm a tio n needed and in the encyclopedias of today the grea in this spirit-essence. And that its d ! u iiRuaRe t i e people can re a tiily u n d erstan d . Ic o n be sen t postpaid to any address on re ta tu a le you on n o t n a m in R th e use o t a n y poison mass of known facts may be founc sensorium plate or disk is located ¿ g ïie " hthe'nr ; ' t ,P” y ,b<; T e ” ^ - ‘> n -P « -f-.n o ^ rem- ceipt of price, $3.00. . 1 — th e o re tru e p rin c ip le th a t should Ruide all which constitute the body of sci in the head or brain organ. tie a rm e n t o f d i s e a e . and w hich I h ave ad vo cated in SPECIAL fiFFFR by special arrangem ent . m m j y p ra c tic e fo r f o r t y years o r m o re . ence. These facts are explained by Then we endeavored to trace soul Y o u rs t r u ly , ? r t ^ a , e" K j r e . , ” n ,j' $ 3 . 0 0 I ir . W. H. C o o l.” text books of each special branch or thought principle and essence by of science; and what is found in evolution through spirit-essence, such works, endorsed by a large life and form principle, and then T h e G re a t majority of living scientists, may proceeded to sav that all thinking be justly claimed to rest upon a people intuitively accept as truth scientific basis. that life being a something does, All the writings of a great scien on leaving the human form, still Xo Need to Suffer from Any Disease. tist are not science; only that upon continue to be something, and there which there is practical agreement fore to have an organization and f E lix ir of scientific writers is allowed to form to individualize it as Ruch, v /i-r/r 1 B a c te ria c id e V IT Æ - O R E Eucalyptus O il enter the sacred temple. For in and therefore to attain an individ O re -O lin e stance, “The Elements of Qeology”, uality. Life’s union, therefore, with M e d ic a te d Soap by Prof. Le Conte, is a scientific a higher than the physical human PEA RL w ; G EER Agent work with which, in the main, all form is essential. scientists agree; but what he puts It seems to me to be rational that S ilv k r to n , O r e g o n . in the last chapter concerning the this higher or spirit-form is the bearing the facts of geology have ultimate organization sought to es upon religion is not so endorsed tablish individuality in; and hence How to M ake and is, therefore, only his opinion that life on leaving the human phy or belief. And perhaps no scientist sical form continues to exist in a would endorse the fanciful idea of spiritual organization and form. ' T he G o v ern m en t nationalized th e P ostal Svstor,. „ k the evolution of a soul or spirit put Therefore the living thought prin S Ä Ä . A/ ,a?.ia. b’!dby c - » Ä iS 5 forth in some of hiH other publica ciple, or soul of the human animal, tions. About what is known, sci does not die, but passes from the U N C LE S A M ’S entists can agree; concerning the physical into the spiritual king unknown, they differ as widely as dom—a transition only. Still the H O M IL IE S ON F IN A N C E fio the unlearned. question recurs: If the spirit-form -------- Postpaid for 25 Cents 1 hat men and women have had is the ultimate unfolding of organ Should tie in th e hind?oVeveVv* t h i S d i ^ j L r e o n ’^ A d d r e s ^ a n 106^ 8 * U n iv ersity The TORCH OF ^ E A S O N ^ SH vertonT'oreM n and still have various beliefs about ized matter, what would maintain gods, devils, spirits, witches, fairies hat organization when attained and ghosts is admitted, and these against all surrounding influences various beliefs are historic facts; acting upon such spirit-form having nphe W ile y B. 1 Allen Co. hut science does not vouch for their »od manifesting life-principle. 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