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THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, APRIL 26, 1900.
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And why should it he inscrutible?
ferences, warrant us in claiming
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that it is known to a certain extent. Unless Mr. Underwood can dis­
Only that is unknowable of which sociate the noumenon from its pro­
is Up and
we can form no conception whatso­ perties and conditions we must ac­
ever. Also that of which we form cept the dicta of Science concerning
a Coming
unwarranted conceptions—figments the elementary nature of the pro­
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of the imagination. Of any suppo­ perties of a thing as being those of
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sitions “something or other” we are the thing itself.
ment in
not justified in saying: “that which
When the nature of the constitu­
is independent of any perceiving ents of matter is definitely deter­
B A B IE S ’
self.”
mined (and I cannot see any valid
C H IL D R E N ’S
Can Mr. Underwood form a con­ obstacle to this greatest of human
M IS S E S ’
ception of anything that is, with­ accomplishments, its properties
L A D IE S ’
out definite ideas of what it is, be­ having been already ascertained
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then that which he affirms to be, leaves but little more to be added,
must be known to him to an ex­ and that is, in my opinion, of a
tent corresponding with the amount psychic nature, that most impor-
of information he has been able to tant of all properties which binds
the immaterial force-units in the
obtain in regard to it.
S T R IC T L Y O N E P R IC E -
PRO DUCE TAKEN
Mr. Underwood’s idealistic Ag­ “loving embrace” of that which
nosticism is based, as he avers, clashes upon our senses in the una­
“ upon the inability of the human voidably concrete form of “matter”),
mind to transcend the cognition of when this point lias been definitely
condition; that we can know things settled in the mind of man, we will
only as they are related to us.” then know all about “that which is
This, I believe, no one has ever independent of the perceiving self.”
disputed, but the manner of his When our, now still so mysterious
TORCH OF REASON _ _ _
consciousness
recognizes
its
source
proposition carries with it the im­
plication that there may be some­ in the sentient principle of atoms,
thing beyond the cognition of con­ idiosomes or “ vortex-points,” the
dition that the human mind is un­ unknowable will make up to the
able to grasp, thus assuming a known, and the inscrutible to a
something there is no reason for realization of the nature of the
assuming, and which is not in the “essence of being.”
remotest degree in evidence. Why
Mr. Underwood concludes by say­
should we not rest content with ing: “Popular materialism and pop­
knowing the relations between the ular spiritualism are archaic; they
external order of the things per­ belong to intellectual childhood.”
ceived and the internal order of the This I will not dispute in so far as
No. 2.
correlative facts of consciousness? it pertains to spiritualism, and to
Does the knowledge or cognition of the popular materialistic tenet, still
these relations not cover the entire maintained in the face of the intel­
“Truth bears the Torch in the
field of the known (when ascertain­ ligence displayed by the movements
search For Truth.”
ed) including the very essence of of micro-organisms, that brain is
their being as far as Science can essential to mind; but, if Material­
place it within our reach? And has ism is, outside of this patent fallacy»
Science ever intimated that there still in its childhood, then must
was or may be something beyond Idealism, by comparison, be still iu
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our cognition, or that we may rea­ its embryological stages of develop­
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sonably wish to transcend. Any ment, with not the ghost of a
attempt to conceive of something chance of its ever attaining even to
outside of the entities recognized by the dignity of babyhood.
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