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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1900)
Our New World. Awakener (the Excubator) of this or outside surface of new Era, we sha.l find it to he ad- world.’-_Consequen,er [Continued from 3d page.] m.tted its and M o proven nmndi. cross was smashed upon his face by itiator in h ^ Q that ? ^ 1 its US in- tima superficies suPerficies mundi. the hands of its defeated holder, same Giordano Rg &T' *** ¡hlS ‘ ‘<indist,nguishable for it is said that no word or cry ny oth r X n This"“’' 6, not even of pain, escaped him! rnav b 're a d v in J f i ^ C° nC]U8’° n rwwld f™>. ‘b»‘ which or to the non es, u. world’s soul, and that the world was eternal,—clearly indicate that the “Innumerabilibus,” of which is the space that was the Index, really caused lhe it embraces his death. But these were given as the results of the “laudable sense There he hung in blood and agony firmed bv his Tnde f P ** • ^°0" contaln8J ”— Indifferens esse and meaning of Nicolas Coperni until, let us hope, life soon ceased io a p ± , S b v , i o „ h ' T , " T 8paCiUm eXtra h° nC muudum “b 60 cus.’ The other charges against minister to “the religion of Love!” h* 8 ~ a .Plectitur ipsum. ----, 'I — -'- v v u x p n jm u r ipsum . minister to “the religion of Love!” “ a great, W°rk’ 8’ 10 “That the Aristotelians him were results of this,or compar His ashes were scattered to the tor* w hich’ h atively trivial, and for which it is kJ. «Th . ""'8 C °nd8mned- I,R are ‘he track (esorbitare, in the winds, and it was supposed that tuie, The Innumerable Worlds,” notion of a limited world and vac- not improbable, but that he would the cross, then as ever, the instru was _____ • . have escaped death,—if need be,by was maiio made the first charge against uum space outside of it.” ment of torture, had won another him, as above stated, because it recantation. “The Church,” as 11 The plurality and infinity usual, ha3 tried to deny the fact victim and victory. Said the curi covered the main grounds of his ous observer and recorder, Sciop “erroneous teachings.” By this as even of the number of other worlds, that he was executed at all; then pius, exultantly: ' ‘This is the way a ma;n Pknro* n . ls as confirms instead of taking away the : ’ J y am ain charge the particular items value or perfection of this world.” that he was executed for the scien in Rome we are accustomed to of New Astronomy,which his judges tific and philosophical consequences [Thus Bruno never lost hope in this proceed against impious men and may have known or suspected to above stated. But the letters of world.]—Perfectionem hujus raun- monsters of this kind.” “Hicitaque be true, were craftily avoided. A eye-witnesses show when and how di non tollere; confirmare plurali- modus in Roma est, quo con disinclination to be committed on he was executed, and the charges, tatem et infinitatem numeri alio- tra homines impios et monstra such items may well account for records and works of Bruno, and rum. hujusmodi procedi a nobis solet.” some of the delay in disposing of especially the above Index, show Cap. 2,9 “In infinite space there plainly what for. The attempts to Oh, Religion, what crimes are the case for seven years. Finally, are all things finitely in motion; deny the fact, and the grounds of committed in thy name! Chris “The Innumerable Worlds” was the suns are numberless, that is the this “Act of Faith”,have only deep tianity had its victim! But was it made the first charge. In 1889, fixed stars, and the earths, that is a victory? The Progress of man when the Liberals of Italy, of ened the obloquy which has over the planets; and the number of the whelmed all connected with it. kind—the new Era—answers, No! America and the world erected his planets around our sun is not yet The Printing Press had even then Bronze .Monument over the very W e are now in the position to found out, nor are those visible ask why did the Church and Chris become a power beyond the reach place of his Martyrdom, his Latin around other suns.”—. In infinito tianity find it necessary to offer up of the Pope or Holy Office. Some works were published by public spacio infinita esse finite mobilia: this sacrifice of Bruno to their God of Bruno’s books escaped the fire. authority, and here they are. Let Infinitos esse soles, id est fixas stel x . , . . , civiVDj col UÀdo BICI and Faith? In other words, what His death increased the desire to th e d r k “ t IndeX a t | ' a8’ et tenures, id e8t • planetas, 1 e did this Copernican Astronomy, read them. In 1608 the Hollander, the end of the “Innumerahil- „________ planetarum , ’ “Innumerabil- non esse compertum thus re-asserted by Bruno, and its Lippershey,theocculist, had by acci ibus,” for light,and what do we find? numerum circa hunc solem, neque inevitable consequences mean to his dent stumbled upon the secret of the A clear assertion and explanation spectabilem circa alios. generation and to ours? microscope. In 1610, Galileo had of the Copernican or helio-oentric Cap. 3,3. “ I he Earth is not more made one of his own. Then appeared Astronomy, and what is more as The Answer is that it meant a in the centre than any planet o the phases of Venus, the moons of tonishing,the first clear statement any of the other solar systems.— N ew \Y orld , a N ew E nvironment Jupiter, and the causes of the of the inevitable consequences,which Telurem non plus esse in medio, and a N ew E ra for the advanced eclipses; then the Astronomy of Co utterly annihilate Christianity and quam quem-cumque ex aliis mun- peoples of the human race, and, pernicus and Bruno could only be all of its theologies! We give a dum. finally, for all. This change was doubted or denied by willful or translation, and then Bruno’s orig 9 “The praiseworthy sense (ob the most complete and important compelled ignorance. Galileo be inal text: servation, discovery) and meaning that ever overtook mankind, and gan to make known these truths 1 “Concerning the gift of the of Nicolas Copernicus is confirmed they weré then, and have ever only as scientific facts. He was gods.”—Dedivum munere [that is, since remained, half-dazed by its (brought forward).’’-Adducitur sen- soon in the hands of the Inquisi The powers of Nature]. consequences, and unable to meet sus et sententia laudabilis Nicolai tion, and his silence compelled. them. As has been well pointed 2 “The habit of believing [faith, Copern ici. In 1632 he had printed a Dia credulity] is the chief, impediment out by Prof. Lester F. Ward, in the Cap. 6:9. “Nature and God con Introduction to his Dynamic Soci* logue, in which the New Astronomy in the way of knowledge.”—Consu- cur, are one,in all things.”—Natur- ol°gy, it exactly reversed every im had the better of the argument, be etu dinem credendi impedimentum am et Deum concordare in omni portant existing belief of man in cause the facts were stated. Again maximum cognitionis. bus. science, philo&uphy and religion, he was silenced by imprisonment. 3 “T here are no H eavens [ Firm Cap. 3:10. “The Divine light and Recantation, probably forced by tor aments,sky-ceilingsj, only one aeth. the Sensible light are one (equiv and therefore of hope, God, heaven, ture, ended in loss of freedom for erial space is around all stars, as alent and yet equivocal) in princi immortality, morals and practical the rest of his life and burial in un- around the Earth miiu and UUll, Sun. niou Also ple [pantheistically], but do not life. Had our whole race been sud denly removed to the Planet Mars, consecrated ground. But on the t here are two kinds [genera] j of stars , fill -, space dimentionally.—Divinam — - . IZlVIIlitllJ it is very doubtful whether the day of his death, December 25, » u n s a n d E a r th s .”— C oe los non lucem æquivoce dici V cum sensi- 14IIJ J luce D LIIO1 L' ozizl nzi4 I » A • • • « • ------ J --- change would have been as 1642, Newton was born. In the ESSE, se<l aetbereum unum spacium billet principioejus.et non esse sur- The Evolutionists were meantime the observations of --------- -- the .... circa om nia astra; cic.it circa Tellu- sum deorsum , te l plus intus quam great. us the unwilling Tycho, and the theories o^rem et Solem. Duo item esse astro- extra,sed tota ubique quia eat sub the first to teach the persevering Kepler, had made rum genera, Soles et Tellures. stantia et essentia vel absoluta a meaning of nostalgia. What a the scientific side of the New Cap. 4:14 “There is a distinction toto, vel tota conjuncta toti ideo- terrible homesickness such a fun World incapable of reversal and between the air and the aether.’’- qne non potest dimensionaliter damental change of environment must necessarily causel Environ ff-ady for Newton, Laplace and Distinctio inter aerem et aethera. spacium replere infinitum vel fin- ment is really our ever-living, creat Herschel. 4 “To suppose a limit to the Uni- itum. ing God. It is all summed up in Hardly less assured was the pro- W » is contrary to sense and reas- , Thia hl8 last clause cla„se is .g & j . a specimen of gress on the philosophical, es- on. -C o n tra sensum et rationem tbe“eqnlvocal”Pai,theisro in which Cosmogony, which is the basis of thet.c and religious side of the new esse t niversi fimfatem. the Though, of Brllno had tQ uke religion and that of morals, lifo and hope. We can thus begin to growth. From the monads and in- 5 “Consequently neither the Earth refuge, but which Science has since appreciate the human revolutions, unity of Bruno came the monads of nor anything whatsoever is in the cleared up by the “unity of correla- which the “Le Revolutionibus Or- Leibnitz, the induction of Bacon, centre or middle of the Universe, tion”. biurn” portended. The above words ’he philosophy of Descartes, Spin- Comets also are planets or earths, T h is of Bruno first made this book » » J a c o b i Shelling Hegel and in general the same in kind.’’- 484) „ the tn(, thf ^ k alive; they entirely blotted out the e'en the poetic art,sestheticism and Neque Tellnrem, neque ullum quip- wtlPre a,| are ¡ntereHt!n_ ’. . J 1 emancipation of Goethe. Hence has piam consequenter, esse in medio. Iimit9 „„ the mogt dJ - ' old world and revealed a strange and at first an inconceivable new -»me Nature-worship,“Pantheism”, Cometas item esse plauetas omnino, Das»aees Tl„. i. one in its place. It was enough to AH- a . .. ............ ,™ — TJ ” take the breath away. Man stood mwation of the new Era since unum specie. ’ I roo Tr the e were enumerable worlds gazing into the abyss of Infinity: O d T? >■ If we ask who was the, 6 “Consequently there is no final and that the Holy Ghost was the 1. Instead of the old God and