8 THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MAY 3, 1900. and a lecture by President Hosmer up on it preparatory to next Fri gone, and that in the case of “Pro on Railroads in the United States, day, when in the Commencement cess vs. Entity,” process is the only N E W S A N D NOTES. but our lovely report was crowded Exercises of the L. U. O. Miss Del reality, and that life, mind, etc., is )< X > < < X X > < X X H > < > O < X X > < K X > < > < X X X X > la Davenport, as Miranda, would “go” and not ‘ thing’—not even an out—“too late” ! Mr. Kautz, of Dolph, Ore., ia with On the 28th there was more con- draw from the lecturer as Prospero “aura” absorbing the aroma of us. He is an excellent architect . . . . . . TT . • , , cert by the . popular choir, which the story of what “betid” to them nectar. The immaterial entity and is giving the U niversity several , .. , ’ ♦ o 4 • T T I. a ia t Í4 J T T V r » i r» — . « A J V l >•' ■ ■ • ■ • w W . « • « - • - ' • • • • ; •’ ' - V - ■ .... v W ins fe . W *« ‘valuable • V W W i « » W W W > | W W W e-s *k I * --.T-rivr*aiCi7' week« of w was Shakespeare's England, and W akem an on ^nakespeaie ami the You are to be immensely con Mr. Geer’s address for the next Tempest. The lecture had thought our “ Earthly Paradise”that is to be. gratulated on this scientific conclu few weeks will be 143 N. 14th St., enough to fill a book. It showed Then the choir sent us all home sion; but you are immensely mis East Orange, N. J., where all com that history was best regarded as happier for the vision of that fu taken if you really believe that the munications may be sent. social geology, in which the lower ture, in which, perhaps, among Churches,Theologians, Spiritualists, Liberals from a distance are in strata in Europe were the Polythe other good things, there will be a Metaphysiciars and Idealists have vited to come to Silverton next istic religions — notably those of Shakepeare Society in Silverton, so concluded. The fact seems to be Friday and have a good time with Greece and Rome and the old Ger perhaps giving a reception to thp that only a few Scientific Liberals us. Literary exercises begin at mans. The leading poets of these Silverton Improvement Society. have done so. But those few are x. y . z . people were chiefly The Epics of Who knows? 9 a. in. the advance of our age; upon them Homer, Virgil and the German rests the “Religion of Science and We wish to exchange botanical, Niebelungen Lied—all about Heroic The F o llo w in g L e tte rs Speak to r Humanity,’’and they as the fighting geological and historical specimens Them selves. ActsI Then came the Christian van against spookdom must neces with interested parties in all parts strata, of which the great poems sarily lead in the progress of the of the world. Write enclosing were the Bible (a composite poem), E ditor T orch of R eason : world. stamps for reply. then the Catholic Dante, and final- Why fight straw men? The writ But to do so they must have A number of the L. U. O. people ally the English Protestant Milton. ings of Prof. T. B. Wakeman are courage and consistency. If Life, visited Mt. Angel Seminary last Thus ended the Christian poetical always clear aud to the point. Soul and Mind are processes of pro Sunday. Some very comical inci growth. Its death is shown by There is no mistaking their mean toplasmic cells and bodies: viz., of dents occurred during their visit. such absurd monstrosities as Pol ing. Personally I am indebted to plants, animals and mankind, as I Almost too comical to relate. lock’s “Course of Time”— with no them for much of my escape from understand you to' admit, then it is A fine design, consisting of a place in which to put its god or the bonds of superstition. But the simply idle and absurd to talk wreath with quill and torch, is heaven. When Christianity “pass Professor, in common with the rest about “intelligence,” which is sim being drawn for the newel posts of ed” with Milton (note all of these of us, is not always able to escape ply a name for mental action, as the L. U. O. main stairway. The Christian poems were “visions”), the preconceived notions of a hv- “ah, sub or super human life,” or student who presents the best de Shakespeare, the Secularist, arose, gone day. Time was when not as existent independent of the pro the morning star of the permanent only the “Church” but even Liberal toplasm whose process it is proved sign will get a handsome prize. A Catholic institution which is in life of man on this earth as his thinkers held that the soul was an to be. Because these processes are sight of the Liberal University is home, and no longer a place of entity separate and distinct from the correlates of the chemical or said to have raised twenty million probation in view of another. He the body and its processes. A sort dynamic changes in the unproto- dollars to build and sustain its reached his zenith at 1600, when of celestial nondescript living upon plasmic matter or world, they can Mt. Angel Seminary. Their new the new Era of Man really com ambrosia and nectar, and not sub not possibly be the same. For building is assuming gigantic pro menced. In 1700 Voltaire carried ject to the law’s of nature. But correlates are always different from portions. If the L. U. O. can raise his Art and Freedom and the sci that day is past—thanks to the their antecedents. This simple law one half of twenty million cents ence-light of Newton to the Conti healthy iconoclasm of Science. The of Science—“the law of economy,” ($100,000), it can “hold its own.” nent, and made a glorious fight, problem of immortality, which, like that is, that things and changes do Read the story of David and Go ending in the French Revolution. Banquo’s ghost, will not dow’n has and can only come about in one VVhen that thunderstorm was over assumed a different aspect. liath (Sam. 17.) way—ends this whole business. and Napoleon gone, then Goethe, It is not a question of “Process Merely shifting the words from A grand concert will be given in the Sage of Weimar, came to the or Entity,” but of Consciousness Liberal Hall by the Silverton Ma front as the great poet of 1800 and and Intelligence vs. Blind uncon life, mind, etc., to “intelligence” rine Band, Saturday evening, May since. These were the three great scious Force. Iu other words, is does not justify us in dovetailing 12th. Admission 25 cents. The poets of our New Era, and their conscious intelligence restricted to the old error on to the new truth, Scio Mandolin Club and a number great poems were not Epics nor Vis the human organism or is it a fac nor hide the contradiction. Nor of talented vocalists will be present ions, but Dramas—a singular fact, tor, perhaps the most important can we help the matter by calling and help make this one of the very but why ? Because when this world factor, in the ab, sub or super intelligence “unconscious,” which best entertainments of the year. became the real home of man, in human life which at once is the Uni makes it a contradiction and equals The above mentioned entertainment stead of those celestial visions, the verse, building and consuming it? 0, like the immaterial entity. Please to read the Torch of April 5, 12 and was advertised elsewhere as taking idea of progress became inevitable, Well does Prof. Wakeman point 19 and you will find this confusion place May 5. Notice the date. and the drama meant progress — out that all changes are “modes of cleared up, and don’t neglect the This week, although full of work was progress. So the historical motion” and if continuous are “in study of J.B. Alexander’s “Dynamic for all, is to be one of the happiest drama was the poetical form of the destructible processes .” That is I heory,’ preface and chapters 45 in the history of the school. Some New Era, and Shakespeare was the granted. But the question is: Are to 86. of the nice things will be: Firing first of Dramatists, as Homer was these processes continuous not only No, my friend! We must not of cannon-at daybreak} music bv ho first of the Epics, and the Bible in their unconscious modes but also confuse ourselves or others, we Silverton Marine Band; raising of the first of the Visionists. in their conscious forms. The Ideal must stand on the intelligible, cor the star-spangled banner to the top Then the lecturer went into The ist answers Y'es, the Materialist No. relative Science, as our intellectual of our L. U. O. tower; opening of Tempest as the culmination of the Let us quit fighting straw men base, and so have a solid founda museum; speeches by the professors dramas of Shakespeare, which iu and address ourselves to the solu tion for our fight for the HumaD, and students; the historiau’s re the order in which they were writ tion of the problem as the modern the Good, the “Earthly Paradise” port; the prophet’s prophecy; exer ten, he showed, formed a drama of S phinx asks it that is to be. cises by primaries; opening of art themselves — a drama of progress Sincerely, Yours sincerely, gallery; essays, songs, etc.; Olym from the Midsummer Night’sDream C. B. H offman . T. B, W akeman . pian games; awarding of prizes; to Henry VIII. and the wonderful Enterprise, Kansas, Apr. 1900. closing at Liberal Hall in the even Tempest, the last and, most pleas Silverton, Oregon, Apr. 300 E. M. ing by the union of the forces of *ng and useful of the plays. He D ear M r . H offman : Thanks for the Y. P. S. S. C. in a grand enter- •recommended the study of this your compliments. But are we L I U S T A S N A T U R A L old hen tainment and farewell ball. 'play as the best introduction to its fighting straw men? or are not you > J » n d » ^ « ld e a lm o r e r r ! ». «. I>-*- New World of Shakespeare, but re- in confusion about words and their • *- ( break i ta efga < r make its cfc cks leu«' —¿K O ' Doeen'letay c i the Deetand allow the e«;-' ’ to chill but hatches every ejrg that can b. Silverton Thought Exchange. fused to go into the outline of the scientific meaning? hatched. THF. I P E T A L U M A IN C U B A T O R ---- 7--- Plot and characters. For, as he It is a great thing for you to see perfect as to incubator essential»— p r o p e r a p p lle a - ( n the wist there was a full said, he wanted all of the students and realize that the soul is not an la tlo absolutely n an d d is tr ib u tio n o f h e a t a n d m o is t u r e , r e g u la tio n and v e n tila tio n . 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