torch of v n i-Ltv r -i. « MLVEBTOK, O M U W , THPB8DAT, MAY R eason . SOO o U d ’ HmO ~ NO. 19. Thoughts and Deeds. time to defend the good and pro tbe arithmetical formula, “once lies in the subject, Dot in the ob ife ’ s more than breath and the tect the pure. He is too busy num one is one”. ject; and we should always endeav bering hairs and watching spar quick round of blood, The idea of the Unknowable has It is a great spirit and a busy heart- or to formulate it in an intelligent rows.—[Prose Poems and Selections The coward and the small in soul scarce its root in the relativity of knowl question. A thoughtful mind is not do live. ' edge. We know things only by the overawed by things which he does ' >ne generous feeling—one great thought The Unknowable. —one deed way they affect us. Subjective sen not understand, but he treats them Of good, ere night, would make life lon sations are the elements of all ob as problems and tries to solve ger seem BY DR. PAUL UARUS. Than if each year might number a thou jective knowledge. Knowledge be them. sand days,— he most modern specter that ing its e lf a relation, the Agnostic Silent as is this by nations of mankind. Nature, it is true, is wonderful; We live in deeds, not years; in thought« should but try to state in clear haunts the realms of phi but what is most wonderful is that not breaths; terms what he conceives “absolute losophy goes under the In feelings, not in figures on a dial. the most intricate and complicated W e should count time by heart throbs. knowledge” to be, and his unattain name of the Unknowable. Ghosts phenomena of nature are marvel . He most lives and goblins are done away with by able ideal of “absolute knowledge” be thinks most, feels the noblest, acts ously simple in their ultimate and the best. will explode in the attempt. science, but, in spite of that, super elementary conditions.—[Funda —[Selected. stition returns and assumes a Every manifestation of nature mental Problems. vaguer and more indistinct form in that affects us directly or indirect An Active and a Silent Spirit. the idea of an indefinite and inde ly can thus afford us material for The Heroic Age. finable something which is suppos our sensation. Inasmuch as all BY R. G. INGERSOLL. ed to be an inscrutable mystery. existence must manifest its exist BY RUFUS CHOATE. Some people fear it as a hidden ence somehow (if it did not, it could ALCOHOL. power, some reverence it as the em- not be said to exist), we maintain mean by a heroic age and race, relief e that alcohol, to a cer bodimet of perfection, some love it that all existence can at least indi one the course of whose his tain extent, demoralizes those as a fit object of their unaccounta rectly be or become an object of tory and the traits of whose who make it, those who sell ble longings, and almost all who in cognition. character, and the extent and per it, and those who drink it. I be their fantastical visions imagine to The existence of a thing implies manence of whose influences are of lieve from the time it leaves the conceive it bow down and worship the manifestation of its existence. a kind and power not merely to be coiled and poisonous worm of the it. It is the Baal of modern phi- It exists only insofar as it mani recognized in after time as respect distillery until it empties into the osophy, and even the iconoclasts fests itself, and every manifestation, able or useful, but of a kind and of hell of crime, death, and dishonor, of the nineteenth century have not producing somehow an effect either a power to kindle and feed the it demoralizes everybody who freed themselves from this fetish. directly on ourselves or indirectly moral imagination, move the cap touches it. I do not believe that While denouncing supernaturalism on other things, can be (directly or acious heart, and justify the in anybody can contemplate the sub in the religious creeds of today,they indirectly) observed, described, in telligent wonder of the world. ject without becoming prejudicec preach the supernaturalism of a I mean by a nation’s heroic age a qnired into and comprehended. against this liquid crime. All you mystic Unknowable that lies be Absolute existence which is not time distinguished above others, have to do is to think of the wrecks yond human experience, and do manifested in some way means non not by chronological relation alone’ upon either bank of this stream o. not seem to be aware of their in existence, it is a ‘contradictio in ad- but by a concurrence of grand and death— of the suicides, of the in consistency. jecto’ and a chimerical impossibib impressive agencies with large re sanity, of the poverty, of the ignor The Unknowable is like the fog ity. Hegel says: “Existence and sults; by some splendid and re ance, of the distress, of the little which the Anglo-Saxon saga relates non-existence are idetical.” This is markable triumph of men over children tugging at the faded dress- was rising in the shape of the giant true if Hegel refers to an absolute some great enemy, some great evil, »- o f weeping and despairing wives, Grendel from the fens and marshes existence, or an existence in and of some great labor, some great dan asking for bread; of the men of ge of Jutland, and “haunted the halls itself. ger; by uncommon examples of the nius it has wrecked; of the millions of men . It is an intangible mon The unknown is by no means un rarer virtues and qualities, tried by who have struggled with imaginary ster that hides the real aspect of an exigency that occurs only at the knowable, for our ignorance of some serpents produced by this devilish hings from the human eye and subject does not justify the dogmat beginning of new epochs, the acces thing. And when you think of the spreads an unwholesome mysticism ic assertion that it can not be sion of new dynasties of dominion jails, of the almshouses, of the pris about all our conceptions. known at all. There are many or liberty when the great bell of ons, and of the scaffolds upon either The world, however, does not problems which have not yet been lime sounds another hour.—[Open hank—I do not wonder that every consist of things recognizable, and investigated, and there are innu Sesame. thoughtful man is prejudiced of fog around or within them. Nat against this damned stuff called ural phenomena do not emanate merable things we do not yet know Trouble comes from avowiug un of, but there are no phenomena in alcohol. from transcendent sources. Nature the world which ‘per se’ are unin popular ideaR. Diderot well saw GOD. this when he said: “There is less is one throughout, and natural phe here is no recorded instance nomena are linked together by telligible. The vastness and gran inconvenience in being mad with deur of the world are so great that "h* re the uplifted hand of murder causation. Causality, the law of the province of science is unlimited, tbe mad than in being wise by one has been paralyzed — no truthful causation, is not a capricious ukase and after each discovery new prob self.” One who regards truth as account in all the literature of the of an autocratic demiurge, who, duty will accept responsibilities. It * of the innocent shielded by like a human monarch, rules lems will constantly present them is the American idea “To make a ’°'h Thousands of crimes are be- the world according to the maxim, selves to keep the inquiring scien man and leave him be”. But we tists busy. The new problems will Ing committed every day. Men ‘car tel est notre bon plaisir’. Caus must be sure we have made him a be born from the very explanations are/his moment lying in wait for ation is no mysterious process; its man—self-acting, guided by reason of the old problems, and they will lheir human prey. Wives are law is demonstrable and explaina open new vistas of research which ed proof, and one who, as Archbish " hipped and crushed—driven to in ble. In accordance with the con we never before dreamed of; but op Whately said,“believes the prin sanity and death. Little children ! ciples he maintains, and maintains servation of matter and energy, hogging for mercy— lifting im- causation signifies the identity of wherever our inquiring mind may them because he believes them”. A venture,we shall find that,through ring, tear-filled eyes to the brut- matter and energy in a change of man is not a man while under sup out, nature is intelligible. a faces of fathers and mothers. erstition, nor is he a man when free form. Fundamentally, causality Nature is not mysterious; if it ap f girls are being deceived, lur- rests on the same evidence as the from it, unless his mind is built on ' “'1 outraged; but God has no logical rule of identity, and is in its pears to us mysterious, it is a proof principles conducive and incentive to prevent these things— no' most general aspect as simple as of our ignorance and of our mis- to the service of man.—[George cenception of nature. The mystery Jacob Ilolyoake. L T I I