THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MAY 3, 1900.
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bv Dr. 3. R. erccr. Cblcaao
in its tongue to superstition and
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other stupidities and pretenses.
ticu lar.
west bound tra in for W amego,
I t tells you how to cure yoursel»
I do not like the word “ rejigion,”
arriving there in the dead of night.
by sim ple and h a rm le ss hom e rem ­
edies.
as it has usually been used, it means
I t recom m ends no poisonous or
For the Torch of Reason.
everything mean. B ut if we m ust
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in concession to popular prejudice a c c o rd in g 68 •®1um ple com n4on-sense m eth o d s in
“ Guilded” Points.
accordance w ith n a tu r e ’s laws.
keep the word in our own curricu­ tb e 8 u ? g L T ’i ek!di>er8edangerOU8 ®x p e rim e ts w ith
lum of philosophy, why, then let
BY JOHN P. GUILD.
m efhods?168 h ° W tO SaVe h e a ,th an d life b-v 8afe
us have t h e “ religion of h u m a n ity ;”
l! ¡L ei!tire ,y free from tech n ical ru b b ish ,
though h u m an ity as distinguished
B rains will alw ays boss bones.
bow atJ 'es I / e v e n t i o n - t b a t it is b e tter to know
from b ru tality is good enough alone. as a cure O,< d,8ea8e tb a n to ta k e any m edicine
The way to level the world is to
level it upward.
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For th e Torch o f R eason.
W hat is som etim es called “com-
mon sense” is common nonsense.
Laziness and piggishness are at
the bottom of envious discontent.
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Spencer’s Ethical System .
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selves for their own boorish ignor- m oralist should m ake the pursuit
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with insolence.
th a t this is a perversion of the O , H e « e k 7 e n i‘ V h ’- t , i , ' " " " y r t o r | " e , P " ,e Fe t < h ’f a n t o n s h -p o o u is ld o n g o u G id s e rem all -
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i m y p r a c t ic e f o r f o r t y y e a n , o r m o r e .
“ Common sense” is the name “ happiness theory”.
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Spencer m entions th a t the well­ l
which m any people give to the no­
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tions they have about things which being of m an, which m eans also
the greatest happiness of the race,
they know nothing about.
is the basis of ethics. W hat is right
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It is m isleading to ran k Thomas
and w hat is wrong have been learn-
Paine with “ Agnostics” as he was a L d Jr. «k . u i r
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Thege are the 8,a n d a rd s_ not th(.
^ « Good T imes fo r all T im e
D isputes are largely occasioned ¡conduct or aim s of individuals,
bv differences in definition of term s.
The precepts of m orality have
Almost an y point m ay be m ade their validity in universal exper-
out in an argum ent, only give the ience.
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N o rth w est th a n any o th e r p a p er.an d
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