Dove com-
m ittee, with the addition of Prof.
Daniel T. Ames, of M ountain View,
Gal., for Am erica. Chose in terest­
ed in this m ovem ent m ay address
any member of th e com m ittee, the
E d ito r of the
.M aga­
zine, or the E d ito r of the Torch of
R eason.]
p ia n
a n u » p p o iD ie a lû e a
rro'*> the T orch
of K e a -o n o f M arch 29,1900.1
w h at OCR FRIENDS IN ENGLAND ARE
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DOING FOR THE LIBERAL UM VESITY.
E ditor T orch of R eason :
Em ilie H olvoake M arsh, d a u g h ­
ter of George Jacob IIol voake, writes
¿0 me as follows:
“LU O ”
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T H E IN G ERSO LL C H A IR .
E ditor F reethought M agazine:
1 hi the dnath of Col. Ingersoll,
From th e Torch of R eason of J a n . 25, 1900.]
his friends in America wished to
AN INGERSOLL CHAIR.
perpetuate his memory by some
E ditor T orch of R eason :
memorial. My father, Mr.‘ George
H olvoake,
an In-
In the Torch of Reason for Nov. Jacob —
----, proposed ....
23 [1899], I read w ith pleasure the 8ers° d chair in the Liberal Univer-
com m unication of Mr H. L. Green, *hy of Oregon, the only Freethought
of a suggestion th a t I m ade to him U niversity ever established. The
respecting the foundation of an intention is the education of the
“ Ingersoll C h air” in the Liberal advocates of F reethought. The fac-
l niversity of Oregon. M onum ents, ulty
the U niversity accepted the
libraries and other m em orials of a proposal, and asked my father to
splendid career, are gratifying and m ake it known in E ngland. By
instructive proofs of the public a p ­ reason of age and literarv work to
preciation, which Ingersoll so noblv which he is pledged, he is 'u n a b le to
earned.
I disparage none of these do all he wished, and has asked me
proposals; I would assist them all to com m unicate the project to such
were not the gods so poor th a t they persons as m ight he pleased with
had little to give me.
the opportunity of expressing their
obligations
to
splendid services
But th is is one form of d istin ­
guished rem em brance which has of Col. Ingersoll.
My father has collected the sums
much to com m end it. M onum ents
cannot be seen everywhere, or re­ appended to this letter. The U ni­
ferred to often, while a C hair in a versity values very highly English
U niversity educates students in the aid in this m atter, as students m ay
principles of which Ingersoll was go from this country to the Oregon
so b rillian t an exponent, who in L Diversity to take a degree, which
their tu rn m ay diffuse them in ev­ will certify th eir instructed effi­
ery land.
ciency. A ny further subscriptions
I know of no Liberal U niversity m ay be sent to me, or to Mr. Pearl
in Europe. I was gratified a t see­ M . Geer, Liberal U niversity, S il­
ing one announced in your paper; verton, Oregon, U. S. A., to ‘whom
and when I saw M r. W akem an’s I shail forward any sums I m a y re­
name as one of the Professors,there ceive. Y ours faithfully.
E milie H olvoake M arsh .
could be no doubt th a t the U n iv er­
£
sity was L iberal in the best sense.
Mr. George Anderson, London
5 0
W hen I read Mr. U nderw ood’s pa­ Mr. Alfred Marsh
3
0
per in the F reethought Magazine Mrs. E. Holyoake Marsh , n »
10
com m ending the U niversity, I Mr. Thomas Allsop
1 0
Mr.
Robert
Applegarth
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10
doubted not th a t they could devise
Mr. J . M. Gunson, Leicester........ 1 0
the subjects for treatm en t from the Mr. A rthur Ginton
„ ....’ 1 0
Ingersoll C hair and subm it them to Mr. Sidney Ginton
0
the governors of the U niversity.
P. S.—Mr. Anderson has had so
For the expansion of the Free much delight reading Col. In g er­
thought m ovem ent, trained lectu r­ soll’s orations th a t he tells my
ers are needed. E very recruit who father th a t if the Ingersoll C hair
enters the ran k s of Reason means does not stand well on its legs we are
an access of intellectual force and to ap p ly to him (Mr. Anderson)
enthusiasm .
But force and zeal again.
are like health and valour in the
Now let the Liberals of this coun­
soldier,and are of m uch more value
try follow the good exam ple set by
when trained. Knowledge, daring
and courtesy, are the essentials of our E nglish friends and m ake this
propagandism , and in these In g er­ Ingersoll C hair a great success.
soll excelled. H is wit and im agin­
H. L. G reen .
ation are not transferable, hut cu l­
fin addition to the above, we
tivation reveals unknow n faculties
in the m ind which train in g alone have received the following short
letter, with an enclosed draft for
brings.
America abounds in men of for­ ten dollars:
tune and liberal en terprise who
“ M r.Spencer incloses a «-mall con­
would aid in establishing an In g er­ tribution toward the proposed In ­
soll C hair for the education of Free- gersoll C hair a t the Liberal U ni­
thought, and S ecular advocates versity.
would originate new ideas and sus­
B righton, Mar. 13. 1900.”
tain unfriended tru th — the future
The latest news from our kind
force of the State. There is no sur- friends on the other side of our
f>r °r more perm an en t form of hon­ floating island, which we w ant to
oring a great advocate or a great convert into such an e a rth ly para-
' rator than by p erpetuating“ the dise as the p rin c ip ie sw h m h 1 Col.
Principles to which he devoted his Ingersoll so forcibly advocated will
genius and life
certainly bring, is a very kind
W ere not m y activity lim ited by letter from Mr. Holyoake, in which
should personally devote my- he calls for extra copies of the Torch
to the prospect of realizing an and says th a t as soon as he receives
pgersoll C hair which the Liberal the acknowledgem ent of the am ount
niversity has so prom ptly and already sent he will forward more.
K-acefully sanctioned. M onum ents
Now, Secularists, let us im-
al? m em orials, but do not teach prove our time. W ord is coming
principles— a U niversity does. Gib- from every direction th a t m any new
n s w o rd s— “ All th a t is hum an students will be with us next year,
1’ t retrograde if it do not ad- and while we have life and energy
v *nce,” are true of F reethought.
is the tim e in which to establish
cry faith fu lly yours,
this Ingersoll C hair— to erect this
G eorge J acob H olyoake .
living m onum ent to our great Free-
Eastern Lodge, B righton, Eng.
thought hero.]
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