THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, MAY 10, 1900. I bring others. This state of things Phenom ena Facts of Conscious- blossomed out finely in the com n e is. mencement exercises. Everything went off grandly. BY B. F. UNDERWOOD. This result means much—may we not say everything for the insti- When there are several dictionary tution? This year’s work and. its dcfiaitivins of words, ¿be selection of c\~~ing -t-l.e solid founda- tion up^p which all must now join one of them to decide questions of to build a higher success in the philosophy is liable to be inconclu coming year. 'Che way now’ lies sive. wide open to the certain realization When I say, with Huxley, that of our highest hopes. Nothing can sound is a phenomenon of con- defeat ue but the want of means to T. B. w . sciousness, I mean that it is a sens go forward. ation—the product of, two factors, vibrations of air and a sensitive Higher Education and Culture l u s t be Various. auditory nerve. No sound without an ear. No In the Article on Free Universi hearing, of course. ties in our last Torch it was shown When I say that luminousness is that they could not be homes of a a phenomenon, I mean that it is a higher education unless they were sensation — the product of two fac- free, and that they could not be tors, ethereal vibrations and retinal free under either State (political) or sensibility. Church (ecclesiastical) direction or SIZ No light (luminousness) without domination. SIZ an eye. No seeing, of course. The only escape from these evils When I say that fragrance is a was pointed out to be the establish- SIZ phenomenon, I mean that it is the.. , , r tt • product of two coeflicients—emana-;in® and conduct,n8 °f Un.vereit.e. SIZ tions from the rose and the sense a8 a matter of freedom on the part of smell. Fragrance expresses of any parties who wished to make SIZ states of consciousness caused by the undertaking under a general' SIZ ftome objects through the olfactory ]aw> providing impartially for the nerve. SIZ In like manner, the sweetness of purpose and allowing State, County sugar is the product of an external or City aid only for those which SIZ were strictly Secular. substance and the sense of taste. W hat we conceive as the qualities Every Liberal and Non-Sectarian SIZ of matter are sensations or states should take this proposition into SIZ of consciousness, due to the object practical consideration in electing ive and subjective factors — to the SIZ external something and the con the next legislature. Or.e further thought should never SIZ scious organism. Sound, luminousness, fragrance, be left out of the mind: That is, hardness, etc., so-called qualities of that only by this freedom from SIZ matter, are, in fact, states of con Church and State can “higher cul SIZ sciousness. The hardness of the metal is a term that expresses the ture” escape death by stereotyping . SIZ sensation produced in us by the re Such culture, to exist at all, must sistance of something known only be various. Every phase of thought, SIZ feeling and view of life must have i by its effect upon us. the opportunity of development in SIZ All knowledge is relative. These statements, to philosophic its own way, and under the sup- i port, guardianship and direction of SIZ thinkers, are but axiomatic. its advocates or sympathizers. Then a free press will be able to SIZ Reply to Congratulations. find support for a various literature, instead of uniform text SIZ I t is pleasant to be congratulated, books and a regulated mode of to be assured that your efforts to thought or feeling, because dictated SIZ benefit and please others have not into uniformity by our “educative SIZ failed. Such recognition is the authorities.” Our State must not try to realize the beau ideal of the SIZ human sunshine that draws out French statesman, that every per and upward the “plant” of human son should think as the State and SIZ endeavor and makes it blossom out ¡Church, every child should say the into flowers and fruits. Such a same lesson in France on the same SIZ of hs age, and when it grows sunshine of light and warmth has day up read the same books, think the SIZ been brought over same thoughts and obey the gov- Liberal University in these beauti- eminent with the same unquestion- SIZ fill days of Spring, by the glorious able alacrity. Thus the old regime VVX - closing - - - carried into the intellectual world success of - its exercises for its stiff and formal method of land SIZ the season. Those friends and scape gardening, where every path visitors present so declared our and stream, rock and tree, shrub SIZ program from start to finish, and and flower was a mathematical the echo of their approval can not manufacture, rather than an ex SIZ but come from thousands of well- pression of ease and beauty of growth, and of pleasure in Liberty. SIZ wishers abroad. All friends of the Our higher culture must not he new, higher Liberal Education all that, but the free and variegated SIZ over the world can not but rejoice growth of the popular life in its joy with them and us. Considering the of Liberty. Every flower of feeling SIZ means at their disposal the Faculty, and thought must have ito chauce I rustees and Students are justly to open its varying expression to SIZ proud of their work. They have the sun, its chance to be selected labored steadily, and all pulled to- and to add to the higher life of the S » gether without a note or thought people, which it is the purpose of of discord. The Students have the higher education and life to learned to study aud to apprec'ate make possible—only possible by their studies as they certainly never every variety of flower and fruit. T. B. w . did before. Tbev will return and 5 For tha T orch of Reason. LUO S E T F R E E ;« , LIBERAL UNIVERSITY OREGON. FOUNDED ON S C IE N C E AND H U M A N ITY SIZ SIZ SIZ SIZ SIZ SIZ SIZ SIZ The 0nlv Institution of the Kind! K a c til t y - — i S q q - ’ o o . J. EARL HOSMER, Ph. D., B. S. D., P res ., Superintendent Department of Cosmology. Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Dynamics. ABEL A. LEONARD, M. D., M. E.,* Superintendent D epartm ent of Biology, Anatomy, Physiology, Animal Electricity, Physiological Psychology, Microscopy. THADDEUS B. WAKEMAN, Superintendent Departm ent of Sociology and Law, General History, Sociology, Law, Linguistics, Ethics. MINNIE P. HOSMER, L. S.,B. S. D., Superintendent Preparatory D epartm ent, History, English Grammar, Botany, Vocal Music. PEARL W. GEER, M. G. H., S ecretary , Business Methods and Correspondence. FREEDOM W. HOFFMANN, Botany, Mathematics. MARY CHILDERS, Kindergarten and Primary Classes. SOPHIE WOLF, Piano Music, Elocution, English Literature. M. G. COOLEY, Violin and Cornet. CLARA WAKEMAN, Drawing and Painting. ALICE DAVENPORT, Stenography, Typewriting. LOUIS RAUCH, Assistant, Bookkeeping, Commercial Arithmetic. LORA AMES, Assistant, Physiology, Hygiene. KATIE MATTESON, Librarian. PROFS. HOSMER, WAKEMAN, GEER, Lecturerson Religion of Science and Humanity. . EMILY L. WAKEMAN, Matron. ♦Dr. I^eonard has consented to take this chair until some one can be found to fill it permanently. S T U D E N T S M A Y E N T E R A T A N Y T IM E . We are now in our New building, which gives us room for increased attendance and much better facilities for teaching. For terms and further particulars, address, P e a r l W . G e e r , S e c ’y , S IL V E R T O N OREGON.