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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1900)
T orch S • T O T « BEARS TME TORCH 1N T„ E VOL. 4. uch t SEA rc „ R eason . „ „ „ TRUTM .-_£ , « r o w a n r a o E B D A y , itoiìoaby E. M OT,(J D | t 0? NO. 6. •lake Heaven Here. observed the life-activity of these single-celled Protista, is positively BY PERRY MARSHALL. convinced that they also possess a et sunshine chase the wrath of gloom soul; that this “celi-soul” also con away, Strew flowers in the pathway of sists of a sum of sensations, percep today; tions, and volitions; the feeling, It is only i„ these most hitth.y- Why wait our journey’s end ere beautv thinking and willing of our human be? 1 r r his inner p , Z s Make heaven here, my friend, for you soul differ from these only in de and me. gree. In like manner there is pre - t y establish the’ e x i X Let self and ill be banished from the sent in the egg-cell (as potential m ind; s . r . •.......“ = The thought of hell doth famish with the energy) a hereditary cell-soul, out kind; of w hich man, like every other ani designate as consciousnes’s. As ™ " " 1 7 ™ ‘°v ‘“t .indefin» e The bloom of love comeson the cheek to mal, is developed. stay; tr a h /.f^ e tio n X ttili'c n n b n n e s .'hTeducatTn o f‘th ° ther ‘i ' 0“8'’ The smile of joy plays on the lips of May. The first task of a truly scientific litre love-clad, virtue will your corning psychology will therefore be, not, as wait 5 And morn-robed goodness still sits by hitherto, idle speculation about an the gate; independent immaterial soul-exist ■be best proof for the immaterial eise o s e ’’T Let peace and joy in twilight robes 8 capacities, wise direc- ence and its puzzling temporary existence of an im m ortal soul And I f \ adorned, : : s ^ nr r throu8h Reward the heart that highest hate hath connection with the animal body, ■bat „OWWe WilI X T t o scorned. in 8 exercise and this direction to but rather the comparative investi? Hjder Hope bears her bow above her queenly gation of the organs of the soul and . furnish his mind with such know head, ledge as may contribute to the use No mists may veil what loving truth the experimental examination of An Address to Students. hath said, fulness, the beauty, and the noble For And mercy melts to mirth the caloused their psychical functions. ness of his life. eye, scientific psychology js a part of BY JOHN TYNDALL. And heaven for love of earth hath left physiology, the doctrine of the How iB this discipline to be se the sky. —[Launching and Landing. functions and the life-activities of Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-con cured, this knowledge imparted? Two rival methods now solicit at trol, organisms. The psychology and alone lead life to sovereign tention the one organized and The Biological Soul. psychiatry of the future, like the These three power, equipped, the labor of centuries physiology and pathology of to le t not for power (power of herself uncalled for), but to live having been expended in bringing day, must take the form of a cellu nould come BY DR. ERNST HAECKEL. by law, lar study, and in the first instance Acting the law we live by without fear; it to its present state of perfction; Aud, oecause right is right, to follow the other, more or less chaotic, but ust as the natural doctrine o investigate the soul-fuuctions of the right development on a monistic cells. It has but lately been shown H ere wisdom in the scorn of conse becoming daily less so, and giving quence. signs of enormous power, both as a basis has cleared up and what important disclosures such a —Tennyson. source of knowledge and as a means cellular psychology can make, even elucidated the whole field of natural here is an idea regarding the of discipline. 1 hese two methods phenomena in their physical aspect, in dealing with the lowest grades nature of man which phil are the classical and the scientific it has also modified that of the of organic life, in the single-celled osophy has sought, and is method. I wish they were not phenomena of mind, which is in Protista (especially Rhizopoda and still seeking, to raise the clearness; rivals; it is only bigotry and short separably connected with the other. Infusoria.) the idea, namely, of secular growth. sightedness that make them so; for Our human body has been built up These same main divisions of Man is not a thing of yesterday; assuredly it is possible to give both slowly and by degrees from a long soul-activity, which are to be met nor do I imagine that the slightest of them fair play. Though hardly series of vertebrate ancestors, and with in the single-celled organism controversial tinge is impaired into authorized to express an opinion Ods is also true of our soul; as a —the phenomena of irritability, this address when I say that he is upon the subject, I nevertheless function of our brain it has gradu sensation and motion — can be not a thing of six thousand years hold the opinion that the proper ally been developed in reciprocal shown to exist in all multicellular ago. \\ hether he came originally study of a language is an intellec action and re-action with its bodily organisms as functions of the cells from stocks or stones, from nebulous '»rgan. \\ hat we briefly designate of which their bodies are composed. gas or solar fire, I know not; if he tual discipline of the highest kind. If I except discussions on the com as the “human soul,” is only the In the lowest Metazoa, the inverte had any such origin the process of parative merits of Popery and Pro- sum of our feeling, willing and brate sponges and polyps, there are, his transformation is as inscrutable te8tani8m, English grammar was thinking—the sum of those physio just as in plants, no special soul-1 to you and me as that of the grand the most important discipline of logical functions whose elementary organs developed, and all the cells old legend, according to which “the my boyhood. The piercing through °rgans are constituted by the micro of the body participate more or less Lord God formed man of the dust scopic ganglion-cells of our brain. in the “soul-life.” It is only in the of the ground, and breathed into the involved and inverted sentences of “ Paradise Lost;” the linking of ( ornparative anatomy and onto higher animals that the soul-life is his nostrils the breath of life; and geny show us how the wonderful found to be localised and connectec man became a living soul.” But the verb to its often distant nomin ative, of the relative to its distant structure of this last, , the organ organs. As » a V conse- — - — with special r VUUV however obscure man’s origin may 0 our human soul, has in the quence of division of labor, there be, his growth is not to be denied. antecedent, of the agent to the ob course of millions of years been have here been developed various Here a little and there a little ject of the transitive verb, of the preposition to the noun or pronoun gradually built up from the brains sense-organs as organs of specific added through the ages have slowly which ---- -- <<Vu, mo it governed, the Biuuy study oi of }|>gher . and lower vertebrates. WR/, aico, ( sensibility, uiuoviro muscles »n as urgaiin organs oi of transformed him from what he was ' variations in mood and tense, the ’Oiparative psychology teaches us motion and volition, nerve-centres into what he if. The doctrine has transpositions often necessary — to 11 w, hand in hand therewith, the or ganglia as central co-ordinating been held that the mind of the u itself, as function of the brain, and regulating organs. In the child is like a sheet of white paper, bring out the true grammatical been developed. The last- most highly developed families of on which by education we can structure of a sentence—all this a med science teaches us also that the animal kingdom, these last write what characters we please. was to my young mind a discipline primitive form of soul-activity is come more and more into the fore- I his doctrine assuredly needs qual of the highest value, and a source a ready present even in the lowest ground as independent soul-organs. ification and correction. In phy- of unflagging delight. How I re &n|mals, the single-celled primitive In correspondence with the extra- -ics, when an external force is ap joiced when I found a great author ^‘ ‘fnals, Infusoria and Rhizopoda. ordinarily complicated structure of plied to a body with a view of tripping, and was fairly able to pin Very scientific man who has long their central nervous system (the affecting its inner texture, if we him to a corner from which there L J T Continued on 6th page. I / E