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
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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.
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No light (luminousness) without domination.
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an eye. No seeing, of course.
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tions from the rose and the sense a8 a matter of freedom on the part
of smell.
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ftome objects through the olfactory ]aw> providing impartially for the
nerve.
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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.
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of matter are sensations or states should take this proposition into SIZ
of consciousness, due to the object­ practical consideration in electing
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external something and the con­ the next legislature.
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scious organism.
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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
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sciousness. The hardness of the
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sensation produced in us by the re­ Such culture, to exist at all, must
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feeling and view of life must have i
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All knowledge is relative.
These statements, to philosophic its own way, and under the sup-
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thinkers, are but axiomatic.
its advocates or sympathizers.
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Reply to Congratulations.
find support for a various
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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
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been brought over
same thoughts and obey the gov-
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fill days of Spring, by the glorious able alacrity. Thus the old regime VVX
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the season. Those friends and scape
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program from start to finish, and and flower was a mathematical
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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
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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
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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.
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The 0nlv Institution of the Kind!
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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.
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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.