THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, FEBRUARY 1, 1900.
discovery o f science is a material
Hr. Sw ank Explains.
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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
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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.
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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
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d an g ero u s d ru g s.
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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
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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.-
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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
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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 -------------
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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-......-
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h ow to care fo r th
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* 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
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which constitute the body of sci­ in the head or brain organ.
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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
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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
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tist are not science; only that upon continue to be something, and there­
which there is practical agreement fore to have an organization and
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of scientific writers is allowed to form to individualize it as Ruch,
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enter the sacred temple. For in­ and therefore to attain an individ­
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stance, “The Elements of Qeology”, uality. Life’s union, therefore, with
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by Prof. Le Conte, is a scientific a higher than the physical human
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work with which, in the main, all form is essential.
scientists agree; but what he puts
It seems to me to be rational that
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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
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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
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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
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entists can agree; concerning the physical into the spiritual king­
unknown, they differ as widely as dom—a transition only. Still the
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fio the unlearned.
question recurs: If the spirit-form
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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
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hut science does not vouch for their »od manifesting life-principle.
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Po^ed to exist. Science, then, in its heretofore asserted. If life, as seen ‘^ ¿ . “u k ^ u T ih ^ h
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widest sense, is the great body of in material nature’s works, was en- « ni^rS^SS^W eiy
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