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“TRUTH BEARS THE TORCH IN THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH. "-L ucretius-
VOL. 4.
SILA ERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, E. M. 300 (A. D. 1900.)
For the Torch of Reason.
NO. 13.
While map can know nothing of
and continue each other by exact
Live In the Present.
; [a] God and [a] soul, he can know
change or correlation of one iuto
much of humanity; the first does
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the other. There is now not the
BY M INNIE PAGE HOSMER.
not need his services, while the lat-
SCIENCE VS. SPIRITS,
slightest doubt about this process
ter
does.
1
hat
as
we
can
know
alone at subset,
of equivalent change. It is the
( wandered
Down by a p u rlin g stream ;
nothing of souls or immortality, it A Statement of the Case by Prof.
I lived in th e past and th e futu
T. B. Wakeman in a Discussion bottom fact of Science, as true and
is useless to speculate thereon, and
Lived in a m isty d ream .
real and certain as that the earth
•
our greatest duty is to make our­ at the Silverton Thought Ex­
goes around the sun. In the phy­
I heeded not th e su n set,
change.
selves as happy as possible, here
G ilding all around
sical sciences of Astronomy, Physics
W ith colors far su rpassing
and
now,
by
doing
good,
relieving
Gem s in a m o n a rc h ’s crow n.
[Elsewhere in this paper will be and Chemistry this discovery has
the sufferings of our fellow beings,
found a report of the meeting of banished all of the entities, ghosts,
I heeded not th e songsters
and
making
their
bodies
as
health­
C hirping o ’e r m v head,
the Thought Exchange, at which, spooks and “causes supernatural,”of
I heeded not th e violets,
ful and comfortable as possible.
after a very interesting lecture from every kind whatsoever. In Natural
H id in th e ir m ossv bed.
To me, egotism is the very mar­ Timothy W. Davenport, Esq., read Philosophy we used to have heat
I sighed for th e days of my childhood,
row of Christianity. Its funda­ by his daughter, Mrs. Adda Daven­ explained by the entity “caloric,”
Days w ith o u t sorrow or care,
mental fiat is: Believe, and you port Martin, the following speech and light by “luminouscorpuscles,”
I tried to peer in to th e fu tu re,
B uilding aircastles th e re .
shall have sugar candy; doubt, and was made in discussion. It was as the great Newton supposed.
; you shall be whipped. Is not this too lengthy to be given in the con Now all of the “forces” are known
And th u s it is ever w ith m an k in d ,
Living in fu tu re or past,
the essence of selfishness? What densed report of the meeting. There to be changes, that is, modes of
We see not th e beauties around us,
are you to believe in? Common was a general wish to have it motion; and so light, heat and
B eauties th a t can n o t last.
sense? No. Science? No. Right printed in full, so that it could he electricity have lost all of their en­
And while we are dream in g and w aiting,
and justice in all the relations of fairly considered. So here it is:]
M om ents are flying by.
tities, and are found to be convert­
If we would bu t live in th e p resen t,
lif<; citizen, husband, father,brother,
ible into each other and into mo­
Sm iles w ould banish th e sigh.
M r . P resident : I am deeply
etc., etc.? No. What then? You
tion, as we see in electric lighting,
impressed
by
the
lecture
we
have
must
» surrender your carnal • reason had. It really seems as though heating and motors. A violent
Christianity is Doomed.
—your common sense—and believe
change is an electric shock or
in a dream that was dreamed, or is Age and Beauty had combined to “ lightning,” but the “thunder bolt”
hristianity is doomed, and
reported to hikve been dreamed, bv do all they could for the old “heart is now known never to have existed.
its members feel it. These
a carpenter two thousand years of man.” I know we have all en­ It has been “explained away” and
men and women who em­
ago! Stripped of superfluous ver joyed the grace of this compo banished with the “caloric,” the
brace so-called Christianity do not
biage and put before us in its ‘.'•‘Jon and of its delivery. But thunder God and the spooks. I
believe it—not much more so than
naked deformity, the bottom fact more than this, it has brought say “spook, ’ for, in Biology, the
I do; I mean the intelligent ones.
of the entire Christian edifice rests down to the issue the main same “explaining away” of “enti­
They want business, friends, so­
upon Joseph’s dream—not certified question which decides it all: ties” has happened. Just as inor­
ciety—have no ideas—no courage
to, nor even stated by himself. Is What is life? Is it an entity ganic matter is ever active, or cap­
—no plans nor methods of life, ex­
it not the perfection of presumption or a process ? The lecture said able of being so by equivalent cor­
cept to slip along smoothly, masked
for any one whose faith stands it was an “immaterial entity.” relative changes, so vital or living
from each other. Such a life * *
upon so rickety and nonsensical a Science claims it to be “the vital matter has vital activity or pro­
shrivels up the mind—burns out
basis as the snoring fancy of a fa­ process” of protoplasm. The lec­ cesses of change constantly going
all moral conceptions—all notions
tigued and, peradventure, late- ture nobly said, also, that if the on. If they cease, the matter is
of duty—all courage and all man­
suppered mechanic, to attempt to scientific claim is shown by facts, dead and the life has ceased.
hood and womanhood. I say Chris­
poke fun at the postulates of com- that claim must be accepted and
Is this vital activity the corre­
tianity is doomed. Look over the
i mon sense? All this, however, is acted upon. This is the right po­
land and see the coming Liberal
wide of the mark. The question is sition, and worthy of all praise! ate of tlie pre-existing activity in
outspoken papers, pamphlets, uni­
still unanswered—What is soul? or, Let us try the case, then, fairly. inorganic matter? That is the
versities, Secular Sunday schools,
has man a soul? After all the First, Is it true? Then, Is it good? whole question. The fact is found
etc. New papers are daily spring­
learned authors’ opinions—ancient Ask these two questions of each of to be that the cell life is the action
ing up all over the land which are
and modern—Pagan and Christian these positions, and we must stand or correlation of the changes and
bold, manly, courageous. Look for
—all obscure, indefinite and con­ by the scientific answer. There is processes going on in the inorganic
life and you will find it iu Liberal
matter, that is, the foods, placed in
tradictory—has any reader the no alternative.
productions. This, among other
W hat, then, is Science? Science contact with it, and which it takes
faintest conception of what consti­
things, is the sign of thé inevitable
tutes a soul that will admit of ra­ in its simplest form is but another up and assimilates in continuing
doom of the false.
tional statement, that will not melt name for its fundamental law, the its life. By that change the food
‘‘A man should never be ashamed
i like a mirage before the sun at the “law of the conservation and equiv­ is decomposed and the cell life is
to own he has been in the wrong.
alence of the forces,” that is, of all sustained and increased, and the
touch of fact and reason?
It is but saying, in other words,
Example is light of day; every the changes and processes known cells are multiplied by growth.
that he is wiser today than he was
man sees it, every man’s life proves in the world. All matter Is found Thus, so much grape juice is trans­
yesterday.”—Pope.
to be indestructible, howsoever vari­ muted into so much living yeast
1 he privilege of being a young what his character is. If he is ous may be its forms or chemical cell, in the fermentation which
tnan is a great privilege, and the ; honest, those that he deals with changes and combinations. In a makes wine, leaving alcohol and
privilege of growing up to be an in­ know it. Every honest man does similar way it is found that all of carbonic acid gas as the refuse of
dependent man iu the middle of as he agrees and pays his debts. A the changes or forces in the world the process. The difference be­
dishonest man does neither. If a
life is greater.
are found to be at bottom “modes tween the high grape juice and this
man’s
word
is
good
for
nothing,
No man lives for himself alone,
of motion” of the masses, molecules, low chemical refuse is the body of
and it is our duty and our privilege what kind of a man is he? Every atoms or elements of matter. It is cells (mother yeast), which ¡ives
to do something toward elevating man that deals with him will be also found that all of those changes, and continues the process of life bv
sure to have trouble.
and saving those about us.
or modes of motion, which, if con­
However things may seem, no tinuous, are called continuous facts absorption, digestion and assimila­
All the passions die with the
evil things succeed, and no good or processes , are also indestruct­ tion—the simplest acts of life. In
years; self love alone never dies.
a higher form we may see this cor­
Wisdom is to the mind what thing is a failure.—[Secular Science ible. They exist only as the equiv­ relation of vital out of physical
health is to the body.
and Common Sense.
alents of each other, and conserve changes in feeding silkworms. We
Processor E ntity?
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