T H E TO R C H O F REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON, F E B R U A R Y 8, 1900. All P h en om en a F acts of C on the “ objective” »nil “ ¿objective” , cam e over years ago with a kind of sciousness. which are the two aides of con- m athem atical, spiral-bored, intel- i also I Coilliiw eif , 7 7 > e t page. tation; if all vegetal life were extinct, these vibration» would con- finite to affect the earth , producing innum erable changes on sea and But w ith o u t c o n s c io u s n e s s t T 7 '7 ' ' 7 r ,e ,lrf“ a " d n ' ‘* l | ,h<“ t , '‘r,,l« '‘ V itiv e rsitie B ,b u tin o r- . ¿ T T ' ' 7, T P ac4«¡“i■ ¡on of d er to bring down more gam e he ' " " " w 1,10 get a clear lias bored out the barrel so as to n, T P " a • * ,on«" "» « “ * j “««k* » ‘em ble -on of American °* th e P e ,w o s ld ” 9 »»<« e le m e n ts of .......... shotgun” ; and there 7 O ur Book L ist. Fac-simile of the Illuminated Paper Covers of the * LIBRARY O F LIBERAL CLASSICS. 1 , j , . much more th an it seep and somp- his “ F undam ental Problem s” shows We know and distinguish obiects .• . . . , , . ?. . time.«, in ex cited o r a b n o rm a l cases, alas! too well. The only safety is bv th e s ta te s o f consciousness w hich, . / * . , , , . ’ everything , and w ill then in s is t to extend correlation into his logic through tiie senses th e y produce in , .. . . . . . * ’ ‘ th a t sim p ly “ seeing is b eliev in g ” . of “ Form s” , so as to m easure and us. W hat things are in them selves, Hence we h ave a world of sp irit equate every thing a nd every change apart from th eir effects upon us and ism (th a t of Swedenborg, for in scientifically by its befoke and af from the conscious states to which stance), with lots of subjective ter . T his elim inates th e epook they give rise, we do not know. A P E R E D IT IO N S . spooks etc., so well attested that it “ thing in itself”, and leaves us cer Paine’s Age P of Reason.................................... 26 The external world, as we conceive ' Common Sense................................. „ ia ill deceive “ the very elect” unless ta in ty and plain sailing for the rest Paine’s Paine’s Rights of Man..................................... t£ it through our forms of perception P ain e’s Crisis ........................................................ 26 they be “scientific” like Mr. U der of our lives. Paine’s Religious & Theological Works. Ills 80 ana modes of thought, m ay have no Paine’s Principal Political Works. Illus.... 80 wood. Of course the healthy posi But let us not tem pt him by the Paine’s Life. Profusely illustrated............... SO resemblance whatever to the abso Volney’s Ruins of Empires. Illustrated... 80 tion is to keep these two sides of echoes of our old battles m a te ria l Rousseau’s Vicar of Savoy, and A Search for • lute reality. Between the in tern al Truth, by Olive Schreiner........................ 2ft perception, cognition, conception, istic, but invite him as a M onist to Rousseau’s Social Contract............................ 80 and external order there is congru in all Ages. Portrait 80 etc., healthy, w ell-balanced and a l join with us and the G erm an class Meslier’s Superstition (rtlnube Iiub ‘■IlmiintfL Portrait 80 ity, but resem blance cannot be Sunday Under Three Heads. Illus. 2ft ways critical of each other, and of the Liberal U niversity, in their Dickens’ Bulwer’s History of a False Religion. Illus. 20 affirmed. Talleyrand’s Letter to the Pope. Portrait. . 26 subject to constant cross-exam ina ch an t of another healthy verse of Gibbon’s Birth and Character of Mahomet... 26 The conclusion of all psycholog Higgins’ Horse Sabbatic«.............................. 26 tion. Or as Goethe says it better G o eth e, to -w ii:— Higgins’ Apology for Mahomet, the Ulus. 26 ical analysis is, as H uxley says, th an we, thus:— « Reasons for Unbelief. By Louis Viardot...... 25 Father Toni and the Pope at the Vatican....... 16 Vielfach is d er M enschen S treb en , “that all phenom ena are, in their Ih re U n ru h , ih r V e rd ru ss; ultimate analysis, known to us only “ Den Sinnen h ast du d ann zu t r a u e n ; Auch ist m anches G ut gegeben, Kein Falehes lassen sie dich schauen M ancher liebliche G en u ss; as facts of consciousness.” 'V enn dein V erstand dich w a c h e rh ä lt. Doch das grösste Glück im Leben, W hat are phenom ena? W hat M it Irischem Blick bem erke freudig, Und d e r reich lich ste G ew inn, t nd w andte, sich er wie geschm eidig, Is t ein g u ter, leich te r S in n . appears. In other words, the a p D urch A uen reich begabter W elt. pearance of the real, the effects upon “ T hy senses also h a st thou to tr u s t; M anifold is M an ’s striv in g , H is u n rest, his v ex atio n ; consciousness of th a t which is. N othing false will th ey let thee see— Y et m any a good is given, th y u n d e rstan d in g keep th e aw ake : That which is, is “ the thing in it 1 W f ith Many a lovely joy is h e re ; fre sh e n ’d ¿glance th e n joyfullv B u t th e g reatest Luck in Life, O B SE R V E , self”— th a t which is independently V oltaire’s Zadig, or F a t e : and The W hite And th e rich e st gain to find And so rove, safelv because p lian tly , Bull, a Satirical Romance.............. 28 of the perceiving self. This is the Is a sound an d cheerful m in d . -------The Sage and the Atheist; also The Through the fields of th e richly-gifted Princessof Babylon......................... 26 world.” “unkuowable,” the “ inscrutable,’’the T. B. W. ------ The Man of Forty Crowns; and The Huron, or. Pupil of Nature........... 26 “unpicturable,” and the “ essence of ------ Micromegas; The World as it Goes; This is the healthy,com m on sense Plato’s Dream ; Jeannot A Colin, etc. 21 Rem em ber, if you send us the being.” Romances, containing the above4 basis of the whole business of right nam es and addresses of 25 of Voltaire’s books in one vol. Profusely illustrated, fl 00 My Agnosticism is based upon Letters on the Christian Religion.... 16 living. And m ay ibis article of your Liberal friends and a c q u a in t ------- -------Philosophy of History............................ 26 the inability of the hum an mind to Ignorant Philosopher................... 26 Mr. U nderw ood’s help us all, big ances, we will m ake you a present ------- -------Chinese Catechism................................. • 26 transcend the condition of cogni Voltaire’s Essays and Criticisms contains the and little, thereunto! above 4 books, profusely illustrated....... 1 00 of a copy of the Torch of Reason tion. We can know things only as Renan’s Life of Jesus. Illustrated ............. SO And now, “ Friend of my better Song Book No. 2. T his will only Schopenhauer’s Wisdom of Life. Portrait... IB they are related to us. W h at being Counsels and Maxims............................ 26 days”, a word of w arning:— I pray cost you a few m in u te s’ work and a ------- ------- Religion: a Dialogue & Other Essays.. 26 is except as it is in relation to us The Art of Literature............................ 26 thee, drop th a t word “ Agnostic” , two-cent stam p. Studies in Pessimism. 26 we do not, we cannot know’. T here Gabrielle’s Life and Immortality of Man .... 60 and beware of the “ Ding an sich”! Davidson’s Canon of the Bible....,................ 50 fore I call myself an Agnostic. Darwin’s Origin of Species............................. 60 The first word, Agnostic, is sim ply Hypatia By Charles Kingsley...................... 80 For the w’ord Agnostic, as used Bacon’s Paradoxes. Portrait ...................... 10 a duhiosity, and has so m any m ean The Scientific Religion By ay Maniei Sands... 00 by those who say, “ I don’t know Ingersoll’s Controversy A Christmas Hermon 26 ings, good and bad, th a t it has no Gods and other Lectures 60 whether there is a God or not,” I ■ Ghosts and other Lectures............ 80 m eaning except as it is constantly Some Mistakes of Mossa................. >6 have no use. I th in k such use of Interviews on Talmage.......... ....... 80 re-defined and applied; and even Freethought: Past, Present and Future. What Must we do to be Saved ?..... 16 the word indicates the A B C state Blasphemy....................................... 20 then it alw ays has a suspicion of ---- Man, Woman and Child. Portrait. 26 Bv T. B. W akeman , w ith p ictu re of thought. Agnosticism proper, is ----- Shakespeare, a Lecture. Portrait. 26 uncertainty and w ant of sincerity. About the Holy Bible, a Lecture... 26 and life of th e a u th o r. P rice, 12 only in regard to the n atu re of ul- Voltaire, a Lecture. Portrait....... 26 copies, $1,00; e a c h .......................... - |0 c Let us all be S cientists — T ruth- Field-Ingersoll Discussion. ige 26 timate being, of th a t of which phe- i , . .. . , . Emancipation of Education. Ingersoll-Gladstone Controversy . 26 6’ E , seekers, and let th a t be enough. ■The Christian Religion................. 26 nomena are m anifestations; of the rrkon QQ . . . . . .. - Foundations of Faith..................... V r , , „ In e n as to th a t “ Thing in itself”, An In au g u ra l A ddress, by T . B. I — Howto Reform Mankind............. 16 essence of “ m atter,” or of “spirit? ,,Uil. n . . . lf„ . a , , W akeman , D elivered on th e in co r Essays and Criticisms.................. 26 Ct , , , f , Being, in itself” , etc., etc., beware! • The Truth, a Lecture.....................• 26 f?tudy of philosophy can lead to at « „„i „ » , ; p o ratio n of th e Lilieral U n iv ersity . •Crimes Against Criminals............ 10 J r r J Your nnai sentences are d a n g e r-1 P ric e ...................... ............................. 5 c ■ Abraham Lincoln, a Lecture. Por. 26 no conclusions of value w ithout i ; k , ♦ i <• . m. * . e Which Way? A Lecture................ 26 , , , , , ously like th a t; and can we forget Photographs of the Faculty Myths and Miracles. A Lecture... 26 study of the psychology of the how the pH Ump g()08e wandered - Patriotic Addresses........................ 26 of th e L iberal U n iv e rsity , s u it •Some Reasons Why........................ 2ft ^nses. 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