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“ TRUTH BEARS THE TORCH IN THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH.” - Z w c r c , ÎMS.
VOL. 4.
SIIA e rtön , OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, E. M. SOO (A. D. 1900.)
What flakes a Nobleman?
NO. 11.
he would count goodness as a merit; It is our dwelling place. We know
and :f no such God did exist, good-' the laws of sanitation, economy philosophy will h*» written, not be­
d ee m th e m an a noblem an who acts a
ness was the best thing men could and equity, upon which health, cause that of Herbert Spencer is
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noble p a rt,
perfect, hut because all philosophy
W ho shows alike by word and deed ° ° ¡ n th is world. It was best for
wealth
and
security
depend.
All
is discredited. What is to be the
he h a th a tru e m an s h e a r t ;
o iif h p I vph fni* Ita
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Who lives not for hi in serif alone, nor
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atisfaction and its these things are quite independent fate of philosophy? Prof. Jordan
joins th e selfish few.
example, and it was best for others of any knowledge of the origin of
says: “All of Philosophy that is
BUt P g ^ d T h a t he c a n * ^ " * 8
aS t h ^ W° u ld Profit bY
H was
the universe or the owner of it. true will become a part of Science;
not less plaiu that there was no And as no demands are made upon
I deem th e m an a noblem an who stan d s
mode of doing good open to us so us in consideration of our tenancy, the remainder must perish.”
up for th e rig h t,
At the present time, Science
And in th e work of c h a rity finds p leas­ certain as by material means.
• he least we can do is to improve leaves no vacant place for Philo­
ure and d e lig h t;
Who bears th e sta m p of m anliness upon W hat were called spiritual means the estate as our acknowledgment
his open brow,
could not be depended on; the of the advantage we enjoy. This sophy to fill. The objective vi­
And never y et was know n to do an ac­
brates, or reflects vibrations; the
preacher who put his trust in aid is S ecu larism .
tion m ean and low.
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surrounding media continue and
from above still found it necessary
Some societies, simply anti-theo­ extend the vibrations, and these
I deem th e m an a noblem an who strives
to aid th e _____,
w eak,
to take up a collection. Looking logical, have taken the Secular
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WO“Id to
f->r Protec,ion against name, which leads many unob­ vibrations cause “nerve vibrations”
within the living organism—the
Who sees a b ro th e r in all m en, from epidemics or famine still left a servant persons to consider the
subject, Then we feel the vibra­
p easan t u nto king,
good
deal
for
Physicians
and
Poor
term Secularism as synonymous
Yet would not crush th e m eanest worm,
Law Guardians to do. Those who, with atheism and general church­ tion when it reaches the brain, and
nor h a rm th e w eakest thing
c«n reproduce, or remember, it;
I deem th a t m an a noblem an—yea, no­ like Mr. Spurgeon, could fill their fighting; whereas Secularism is a
blest of his kind,
meal barrels by prayer, had no un­ new name implying a ‘new prin­ and thus we get the facts of con­
Who show s by m oral excellence his p u r­
failing formula they could patent ciple and a new policy. It would sciousness. There is resemblance
ity of m in d ;
all the wav along this telegraph
Who lives alike through good and ill, th e of which the public could purchase
he
an
imposture
term
were
it
mere­
firm , unflinching m an,
line. For instance, a bell is ring­
Who loves th e cause of brotherhood, and the royalty. Clearly, Sci ence is ly a new name intended to disguise
aids it all he can.
the only Providence which can be an old thing.—[Sixty Years of an ing, vibrating; the air vibrates like
the bell, the auditory nerve vi­
—Selected
depended upon. Therefore, the Agitator’s Life.
brates like the air, and the “giav
morality of duty and material
matter” receives the vibrations,
Origin of Secularism.
effort were the practical precepts of For the Torch of Reason.
life, yielding preservation in this Things of the External World and I feel them and call the feel­
ing sound. And I know by the
BY G. J. HOLYOAKE.
world and furnishing the best cre­
Not F acts of Consciousness.
sound and previous experience that
dentials to present in any other.
the line is in order and working,
‘ ot seeing in my youth what
These principles being few, prac­
BY CHARLES CLARK MILLARD.
and a t the further end an object
better I could do in a tical and demonstrable to any
exists, having a certain size, shape
world where no one seemed capable of observation and reflec­
N a former article I asserted and quality, and that it is being
infallible than to think for myself, tion, they constituted an indpend-
that Science included all the rung.
led to my acquiring opinions differ­ ent code of conduct which, owing
facts acquired by humanity
Now, the sound—the fact of con­
ent from other people. For a time nothing to ancient revelations, ad­ and preserved to the present time.
it distressed me very much to find herents of such views were under Although many of these facts may sciousness—is not an entity, not a
that I differed from the world, un­ no obligation to waste time in he unclassified, it is because of the substance, and certainly not a
til it occurred to me that the world reconciling the truth of today wilh incompleteness of Science, and thing in itself. It is a property of
differed from me; then I had no error of the past. Distinct from there is a place for every fact which the subject, which has arisen from
more anxiety. Tho^e who believe received opinion, the form here de­ that fact only can fill. And it fol­ the general property of irritability,
because others believe the same, scribed is at least equal to it, for, lows that all the real facts of philo­ and its function is to present the
are without claim to authority; in the words of the Oriental motto, sophy belong to Science. By philo­ object to the subject. That it may
while those who hold opinions be­ “There is no religion higher than sophy, I mean what has been be pleasant or painful, is a pro­
cause they have thought them out 1 ruth.” Secularism, it was hoped, know n as “ Metaphysics,” or “ Men­ vision of nature for the preserva­
for themselves have used the same would aid the “coming of the king­ tal Philosophy,” and is now called tion of the organ and the species.
The facts of consciousness are the
liberty I had taken, and I was dom of man,” to which Professor I sychology, and not the new Pay- numerous
dispatches which come
guilty neither of presumption nor Clifford looked forward.
etiology, which is the branch ol t0 UH from ,be eJ[terna| world, and
singularity. If the world differed
I hat this Secular form of opinion Physiology that treats ol the func- when our end of the line is in good
from me, it was doubtless in self- implies Atheism, is an error into tion of the brain and nervous sys- working order and the receiving
defence, and if I differed from the which many fall. Secularism, like
te™;.,
t
,
operator is sane, they are really
world, it was in self-protection. mathematics, is independent of the-
1 hilosophy IS a theory based on and practically true.
And, as the world did not make istical or other doctrine. Euclid the assumption that “ Phenomena
These conclusions are neither an-
any arrangement to answer for my did not ignore the gods of his day; are facts of consciousness,” and the liquated nor speculative; they are
upinions, it was hut common sense he did not recognize them in geo­ inference that they are, nr may be, among the factB of ecience) and afe
that I should myself select the metry. They were not included in noth,ng more; and what may be a confirmed by the latest discoveries
principles for which I was to be re­ it. But if pagan theology under­ necessity of philosophic thought
in Physiology. M. Charles Richefc
sponsible.
took to contradict mathematical may be of little importance to hu­ says, in the Revue Scientifique (see
have
joined
; manity,
for the assumption
and in 1^11.
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Digest, r Feb.
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ference
may
lack
proof
and
the
it
is
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likely
and
I
shall
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thought,
was geometry. My argument is theory may lie false. Before mod- prove tbis> ,bat t ,)e vibratjon3 jn
a simple theory o f ethical duty was that a man can judge a house as to ern science had a beginning, great tbe exlerna] world act on our
possible, which would save from in- its suitability of situation, struc- schemes of philosophy had been sense-organs by producing in us
'hfference the increasing class of H ire, surroundings and general de- thought out and brought to malur- another form of vibration neces
thinkers who regarded the theology s.rableness without ever knowing ity; and as exact science has slead- sary for the existence ol perception
'hen in vogue as vague, uncertain, who was the architect or landlord, ily, and in this century more and sensation. The living crea-
irrelevant or untrue. It seemed to and if as occupant he received no rapidly, grown, so in the same ture, by tbe fact of bi< own vibra.
that doing good was being good application for rent, he ought in ratio has philosophy declined.
tions> ¡„ t he receptacle, the micro­
that it was good to do good, and gratitude to keep the place in good
Its
end . is in view.
It is not v cosm,
on which
at each moment the
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Lhat if a God of Goodness existed, repair. a So it is
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