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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, APRIL 19, 1900.
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There was a fine, appreciative had done for the world, especially
Comte and Spencer.
audience
at
the
Thought
Exchange
in
our
day.
N EW S AND NOTES.
[Concluded from 6th page.]
last Sunday evening to listen to
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Some questions were asked and
Prof. Freedom W. Hoffmann speak answered.
the object and purpose of life, pre­
Gardening is the order of the
on “Cranks”. The lecture, discus­
day in Silverton.
Prof. \\ akeman then congratu­ sent and future.
sion, and music made a grand
As Carlyle said of Goethe, it is
lated the world that the good nov-
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algebra class was formed in the L.
dence whereof he read from the but the awful quantity that he has
U. O. today.
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New’ York Tribune of the last Sun­ worked himself out of and omitted,
That E ndow m ent.
We hope to be able to ride on our
day a confirmation of the statement that constitutes his real worth. So
new bicycle track before the close E ditor T orch of R eason :
made in Mr. P. L. Brown’s lecture with these men, it is what they
of this term.
I am sorry to say that the St before the Silverton Thought Ex- have outgrown which largely makes
The football grounds of the L. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette is mistaken change last Sunday, to the effect the value of their lives and philos­
U. O. will be the regulation size about that $100,000 endowment for that the X-ravs enabled electricity ophies to us. True philosophy is
the Liberal University. It was a to pass in a vacuum with a spark. not only a love of the Truth, but
and second to none.
the dropping, outliving and forget­
The Natural Philosophy Class mistake on the part of the reporter. Thus showing that there was no
ting of the errors which were the
is doing some very interesting as I told him that was what we want vacuum as far as ether is concerned.
and what I am after; and I sup­ This ether - concept is the last most of the Past; for Scientific
well as profitable work.
pose he saw that I was in such thought of Science, and behold liv­ Truth is a modern invention —
The members of Prof. Wakeman’s dead earnest that he thought I ing crankiness is attacking and chiefly a reversal of past childish
German Class are learning to would capture it that night. I solving it by electricity! This illusions. \\ hat of this erroneous
Deutch sprechen at a remarkably hope the friends of Liberalism will Easter Sunday, then, ought to be a past these great men did not drop,
rapid rate.
make it true.
sort of Festival of Cranks, for it is these, fortunately their last, critics
Yours for the L. U. O.,
Besides the musical entertain­
the day of the resurrection anc have now done for them. Thus the
ment next Sunday evening at Lib­
P earl W. G eer .
hatching of Nature and all new French critic has dropped from
eral Hall, there will be a short ad­
things from gods to eggs and ladies’ Comte his absurd and retrograde
dress on the Government Owner­
hats, of which a small flower garden Papacy and Papal Polity, with all
S ilverton T hought Exchange.
ship of Railroads.
was present. Yes, let them always its consequences, and has wheeled
Make the L. U. O. as strong PROF. F. W. HOFFMANN ON SCIENTIFIC be gay with the flowers of Spring him and his philisophy into the
and Easter—ever new in their line of modern Science, Republican­
financially as the students and
CRANKS.
floral, cranky variety—but not with ism (not in a party sense) and Pro­
teachers are in their desire to gain
gress.
knowledge, and our building will
Everybody loves to be amused dead birds, which are never new
Ihus Judge Waite has dropped
soon be completed.
and so everybody loves cranks, for but only deathly and horrid. It is
only the deathly or lunatic crank from Spencer his anthropomorphic
Every Freethinker should read they are amusing at least. The
who would thus use dead animals conception of “An Unknowable”,
announcement
that
they
were
to
the Freethought Magazine, pub
for ornament. Good cranks are and all its implications. So that
lished at 213 E. Indiana Street, be presented at the Thought Ex­
always new because a part of the the C osmism is now simply the world
Chicago, by H. L. Green, a friend change, by Prof. Hoffmann, filled
the house, though some of the usual evolution of Nature and in sym­ as it is, without beginning, end or
of the L. U. O. and of Humanity.
attendants couldn’t resist the at­ pathy with her laws of healthy purpose. This is the happy ending
The Woman’s Social Science Club tractions of the country and their growth, both in clearness of head of the two great novels of modern
will meet at the home of Mrs. Dr. bikes.
and, above all, a well-wishing good­ thought. Now all we have to do
Leonard Saturday, April 21, at 3 The choir, too, recruited its ranks ness of heart to all.
is to go to work and use the world
p. m. Mrs. Dr. Brewer will read and were heartily applauded, es­
Prof. Hosmer went all of the and life they reveal and make the
the paper of the day. Subject, pecially when they closed the even­ professors “one better,” by showing best of both. For all the gods, de­
“Home”.
ing with the song:
that the true crank must be such vils, spooks and bogies are gone
Paul Carus, the donor of one
naturally and unconsciously in the rom the universe; as all the “im­
W h a t’s the use of your complaining,
hundred volumes to the L. U. 0. is Or detaining or restraining,
pursuit of truth and goodness, and mortal egotisms” are gone from the
editor of the Open Court, a month­ For the world is onward rolling,
never a mere oddity—least of all ife, mind and purposes of emanci­
And you can’t keep it still.
pated and intelligent Man.
ly magazine of much merit. Ad­
assumed
for
the
purpose
of
attract­
cho rus :
The Torch has sent out many
dress him at 324 Dearborn Street, ’Tis an age of progress, ’tis an age of ing attention. Such insincere, self-
true and valuable thoughts to the
progress!
Chicago, 111.
advertising
cieatures
could
never
i ’Tis an age of progress and you cannot
rise to the dignity and worth of a world. Could it send out anything
keep us dow n!
The Southern Pacific Railroad’s
sincere lover and follower of the more valuable than these messages
adjusting agent from Portland
lecture , had some Truth
whinh the
♦» real, i genuine when we consider and weigh their
. . Prof.Hoffmann’s
, a
truth, which
made us a call last Tuesday. It is introductory
remarks of pleasantry, crank mu8t eyer
* were import and consequences?
hard so tell whether things will be and notice that he was not to waste mere| fraudS) fak
pretenders
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adjusted to as to please their pa­ time on common, bad, crazy or and hypocrite8 and
t() be e„.
“ E nglish S ecu larism .”
trons here or their cantankerous id,otic cranks, but with those whose couraged> eyen b our ,
f
By George Jacob Holyoake, 146
local agent. Time will tell.
crankiness was real novelty and they were really disgusting in their pages, neatly bound in cloth, post­
paid, 50 cents. Twenty-two excel­
Just as we go to press we learn originality which was called cranky fa,8ehood. If you are a crank
the sad news of the death of Dr. by hose who were really thecrenks , be pur8uit and reaiization of truth lent chapters, together with Secu­
larist ceremonies on Marriage,
the sense of being unnatural ! ~ j
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P. C. Mosier, of Homer, 111. The in
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nrtlura,‘ and goodness, it is well and good to Naming Children, and Over the
a crank; but the crown and Dead. No Freethought library is
lorch of Reason family know of orma , conven loua , stil , petrified,
him and his work in the interest of and who, thus unable to catch on g|ory of Crankdom, like that of complete without it. Sent free with
the Liberal University. He died thmieht " U T
° 116 worl<1’ martyrdom, is not to be consciously yearly subscriptions to the Torch
thought
it
cranky.
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April 4th, in Oakland, California,
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sought after—never paraded. If
He understand that vou will
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where he had gone for his health.
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come it must, let it be an inevitable
a.« tna
read this lecture in this Torch and
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12th. Obituary next week.
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to chill but hatches every egg that can be
marks and illustrations werethrown mught or dec|ined.
hatched.
THE
We are in receipt of one hundred in wlwch made even the serious
PETALUMA INCUBATOR
aa to Incubator em-nttala— p r o p e r a p p l l r a -
volumes of “English Secularism”, amusing, and which those not pre­ The audience joined with the t I* i a absolutelyperfect
n a n d d ia lr t b u t l o n o f h e a t a n d m o is t u r e . r e g u ­
l a t i o n a n d v e n t i l a t i o n . F o r 50 to 550 e ra s . WE PAT
choir
in
“refusing
to
be
put
down,”
by George Jacob Holyoake, a copy sent will he punished for their ab­
FREIGHT ANYWHERE l n t h e U . 8. H a n d so m e ca talo g fr te .
P e t a l u m a I n c u b a t o r C o .. B o x
. P e ta lu m a , CaL
and all went home wiser, stronger
of which is now ready to be given sence by losing.
x. y . z .
away to each new subscriber or re-
The discussion was quite lively. and happier.
Jhe W iley B.
newer. The donor, our friend Dr.
Mr. Lou Ames was greatly
Allen Co.
Paul Carus, of Chicago, also sent at pleased, and wished the lecturer
A descriptive catalogue of all the
The Oldest ! the
the same time forty fine engravings would take another half hour to fill best
Largest ! Music
Freethought works free on ap-
Store. Leading Pi­
of noted men and about the Bame out the outline he had sketched in plication to Dellquest & Andrews,
anos and Organs.
number of pieces of sheet music.
309-311 First St..
showing what the crank-originals 1 Secular Booksellers, El Paso, Texas.
PORTLAND. OREO-