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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1900)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, APRIL 5, 1900. ki.cw just how many pounds of crobes, and possibly with fishes and natural life process. In a word, it For the Torch of Reason. Brain Photographs. leaves, having just so much ‘‘en- higher animals, if the conditions is thus proved that life and proto ergy,” will make just so much life, remain they will return to life, be- plasm are indissoluble; that both BY C. S. SPARKS. wbich will expend itself in making cause the means of their vital pro- originated together , and both just so much silk. We see one cesses have not been much changed naturally , just as they are now All the great works of literature, change taking the place, and so or destroyed. You have only to naturally continued. Thus Science thn wonderful feats of architecture, correlating into, thus becoming the try these things on to see that they settles every doubt and question on all the things that have benefited other. This being so, the “spirit” are so. Unless the material and the subject which has been raised. man, and all the thoughts on any or spook that used to make the the conditions of the life process The lecture seems to think that the and all subjects, whether good or wine or bread or silk is gone, and are destroyed, life can, under proper consequences are vpry dreadful. baneful, are but photographs of the It talks as if science was nothing Bacchus and Ceres are now only circumstances, be discontinued and brain, and the greater the develop myths. All vegetable and animal be set agoing again. There is no more than an invitation to attend ment of the camera, the brain, the life is simply such transformation more immaterial entity about it our own funerals. President Hos more accurate will be the photo of the stored and latent energy of than in turning on a light or re- mer has well intimated the oppo graph. No, no! my sapH and foods into the action or viving a “drowned man.” There site view tonight. An imperfectly developed brain vital energy of protoplasm called is no entity to call back in either friends, not our funeral, but that of will produce an inaccurate photo “ living.” The “immaterial entity” case. There is simply a renewal the “immaterial eutity”! graph of anything which it endeav is no longer needed to account for it; of natural processes which have ■ This truth is simply destructive ors to produce. that is now a fifth wheel to the been suspended from want of mois of an error which clears the way The brain, whether developed or coach, as needless and as absurd as ture, or air or nutrition. Why do for a higher and better life for us undeveloped, will produce its ideal Bacchus or Ceres, and just as un not scientists produce protoplasm and our race than was ever before upon any subject. thinkable. It is a pseudo, or false, or albumeu able to take on this imagined. That will appear when The brain which produced the idea—a nothing something or a vital process? Because of the deli we come to speak of “Our New Bible and the characters therein something nothing? It vanishes cacy of the materials and process Hope”. did the best it could. Their ideals whenever you try to think it, just at the start. It seems not to have were portrayed within the bounds For the Torch of Reason. as a spook always does. It cannot been reliably done in the chemical of the development of their brains, “Guilded” Points. account for itself, much less ac laboratory as yet, but it is a sure and do not exceed that develop promise of science. But how pro counting for anything else. BY JOHN PRESCOTT GUILD. ment. toplasm originated is not at all ma Life, then, is a process of the Our greatest thinkers possess A priest is a holy humbug. terial to this life question. The changes in protoplasm and its cells, brains of much wider range and Hate is hotter than any hell. al ways the correlate and concomi- question is, whether life is the development than those who paint correlative result of the natural Man is bigger than any book. tant of changes in food matter. ed their ideals that are perpetuated This fact ¡8 now incontestable. It | changes in matter, or of the doings Right is larger than any law. by the Bible, and, consequently, makes no difference whether it is!ot an immaterial entity? Science they are capable of more accurate Love is fairer than any faith. one microbe, a yeast cell, or the proves that it is a force process Truth is greater than any God. reasoning and determination of the continued from other changes of three million cells which make up Knowledge is better than any be things mentioned and supposed by ihe wonderful complexity of the matter. Having proved that life lief. the authors of the Bible to be the takes place in this one way, by the human body. Any one who wishes is higher than policy, perfection of the capabilities of the can note the process; it is all “law of economy,” as the lecture but Principle race. rarer. said, it cannot come about in any around us. Indeed, we are its Unless you know another’s pur The perception of the authors of highest instance. It is a fact incon other way, and by the said law of pose, you cannot know he has made the Bible could not imagine other correlation the same result cannot testable, and ends the case. Life’s thau that the world is flat, and a mistake. higher manifestations in the sense possibly come from different causes. Might is not always right, but since they did not know mathe That idea, however, that proto of “self,” consciousness, design, etc., when might is right, it may change matics and astronomy, they ac are found to be the concomitant, plasm is a “created” material, is wrong to right. cepted their imaginations on the negatived by the fact that the cre correlative results of this funda The man who says you cannot subject. mental vital process. They are ation of anything out of nothing is be honest in this world and succeed Since the brain has become cap the complex combination of changes an inconceivable or pseudo idea. in business, it will be successful for able of perceiving and producing in the nervous systems of the Nothing “created” has ever been you to have no business with. more accurately, by possessing the Those who carp that much learn science of astronomy and mathe higher animals and of man, but found; and so that hypothesis has without “life” they at once cease. no place in Science or Common ing may make one mad are not of matics, accurate calculations have The vital process is the Sun which Sense whatsoever, for it has no the kind liable to lunacy from that become a reality, and science has cause. Fools never go crazy. makes our mental day or night, fact—nothing whatever to stand Do not be afraid of getting hurt long since demonstrated that the upon. without which neither are. by getting a new thought; your old world is round. But that living protoplasm is ideas were new when you got them. Nor is it an objection that the pro The brain is a great castle, in cess of vital action is a continuous a naturally produced substance, is Did they hurt you much then? which is received dispatches from one, which we have not as yet been perfectly clear from what has been Brilliant diamonds are desirable the nerves of the body that con able to start without a cell or bit of discovered about it. For its life is if you want to shine in polished so stantly, consciously and uncon protoplasm to begin the process the action of chemical elements ciety, but rough boulders are better sciously direct our actions and fur with. In olden times fire was al- (C. H. O. N. P. S.), so combined for building the foundation of a nish us knowledge of the world. structure. ways started by fire; when started that they cannot hold together or The authors of the Bible did not “Lessen your wants and be con otherwise it was supernatural, and exist as protoplasm at all, except tent with a little,” is a lazy man’s understand this. They permitted “ Vulcan,” the “God,” or “caloric,” by that action. Just as soon as philosophy. They who want little the brain to exist in a mild, uncul the “entity,” did it, for man “could that action ceases the living proto-, will do little and get less; and they tivated state, and concluded that never” do itl How absurd is this plasm becomes dead, and unless re will get left, too. all their aspirations, successes, hopes now in the age of “parlor matches” vived as aforesaid, soon decom- Aim high, preach high and go and fears were attributable to and electricity! But instead of poses. But it has been discerned high. Do not talk down to the “God”—an indescribable something starting life with fire, W ’e start it aQd proved that this action, abso-, people, but talk the people up to beyond the bodily vision of man. with water. The microbes and lutely necessary to the existence of you. Talk above your own head, In nearly all ages of record we and then grow up to your own talk. protoplasm at all, is itself a natural smaller cells, even yeast, often be find, however, that there were a Do not be afraid of being too come perfectly dead for want jof correlate of changes in foods, and good. You will not be too good if few whose brains had reached a de moisture; the immaterial “entity” does not and cannot exist except as you try, but you may think you are velopment far in advance of their is where? But give moisture and such correlate. As this natural too good for anything but God when fellows, aud that they have paid the right conditions and food, and process is thus the “soul” of living you are too mean for any use to the death penalty for reproducing soon they are “at it again”—lively protoplasm, without which it can- man. the mental pictures of the brains, as ever! The inhaling of these n°l Hve at all; and as things can I will not stoop to folly to win a and that it is only in recent times smile; I will not cater to stupidity that the great thinkers have had dried microbes is the chief cause of only originate in “one way,” it consumption and other diseases, follows beyond question that to court popularity; I will not pan the toleration of those not so far to crime to wed renown; I will They revive and grow again in our protoplasm came about naturally der not reuounce my reason to get ou advanced as themselves. luugs. So with thoroughly frozen m i-1 by and with this same action or to the graft. We have had more learned men