T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON, MAY 24, 1900. If any of our em ancipated bret h-1 conduct prescribed by society or the ren in Ohio can find such a m an as individual for their common bene M araball 0 . W aggoner, we hope fit. The necessary order of our they will write to us at once and hum an or objective world. give us a true history of his won- The progress of the race is large- -frfuL case, not p eH w tin g ♦<? find ly.megswred by »be o/ out which he is, a fraud or a lunatic. the m eanings of words. Unless we learn and use these newer m eanings, as in the case of the words W orld W e l u s t G row to Live. and Law, we are sure to get left The first page of this Torch shows and have to live in an old, played- how to learn and grow in order to out world — absurdlv behind the times. T hus this word W orld — live. Our h ealth y grow th iS the condi th a t which is objective with M an— tion of life. There is no such thing his N ot I,— how im m ensely has the as rest in nature. The inorganic or m eaning of it grown since th e old active m atter th a t has been called “ Bible tim es”, when it only describ “dead” is known to us only as a ed a bit of country around the constant process of change. In the M editerranean Sea; and the firm a organic world of living m atter, th a t m ent of sun and stars over it,—and is the world of protoplasm ic bodies, only a short distance above the the p lan t or anim al th a t does not clouds! T heir w orld-m ap was about assim ilate new m aterial and grow as large as your h an d ; and thus, is soon dead. So it is with hum an being very sm all, was conceived of as individuals and so cieties— when created and governed by a Man- they cease growing, they are begin God, or personal God. We have a ning to die— physically, em otional world in which the whole E a rth is a vast rotating planet, a Sun with ly and intellectually. It is this relation of the fact and an orbit 186 m illions of m iles in law of growth to progress, and even diam eter and 358 m illions of miles to life, th a t condem ns all forms of in orbit, which it circles every year. Theology and M etaphysics. Their And this, our Sun, and its solar “Gods” and “ P rinciples” are eter system, is moving through space at nal and unchangeable. T heir a d the rate of ten miles a second, or herents have th eir hopes and faces 300 m illions of miles a year, to turned to some past Eden or G old w ards the constellation L yra, which en Age, or to a sky Heaver. E tern al is composed of sim ilar suns and 1 above, for which oui present world world.-!— and such suns and worlds and life is only a “ state of proba are shown by the telescope and tion” . The view of m an ’s lot and photograph to be beyond our power fate th u s inculcated is one of stag to estim ate or com prehend in num nation, and th a t has been and is ber! So says our great astronom er, the principal cause of the m iserable Prof. Newcomb (M cClure’s M aga and unprogressive past and pres zine, Ju ly , 1899). How ridiculous ly absurd is it to think of applying ent of the hum an race. All of the progress there ever was ihe old “ tu p p en n y ” Bible concep in the past was the result of the tions about the world to the U ni evolution of N ature with its “ n a t verse or Cosmos as Science reveals ural selection” and “ survival of the it to us? How childish to ta lk , as fittest.” Even the progr ssive re those children of our race did, sults of this n atu ral law the old re about its being created or governed ligions did all they could to defeat. by a m an-like god for the benefit The idea of progress is not three of a bit of protoplasm on the su r hundred years old. N ature went face of our little planet called the on growing and developing, but the hum an race? E qually absurd is priests went on swearing the people the story of the origin, lot and fate to their unchangeable revelations of our race:— the Creation, Flood, and creeds. The idea o f law as the V icariousA tonem ent,all for the ben “order of change” was u n th in k ab le efit of a few in a sky Heaven u tte r to them. Instead of law, as an ob- ly impossible, as now astronom y served order of events or of co n tin shows it to be; and the dam nation ual changes in n ature or in hum an ¡of a vast m ajority of the race in an conduct, they believed th a t law was ¡ equally imposible Hell! Shall we the com m and of some god, or had laugh or cry over their old world some power to govern things by or story as com pared with the new? of itself as a “ P rin cip le”, or u n a c The im m ensity of the difference be countable P rincipium , or Beginning tween this old, silly, childlike m yth of things. Science has raised us and the Infinity of the new World of above all of th eir old ideas about Science may well excite a smile of the word W orld and its origin, and contrast; hut when we consider the the word Law ; to both it has given m illions of hum an beings who are oew and true m eanings, as above imposed upon, robbed and d eg rad ed by this old-w orld Bible story intim ated. L aw should never be spoken of and its consequences , the smile as “governing” an y th in g , or as be- passes aw*ay before thoughts too ing imposed by a god or any power deep for laughter or tears. before, outside of, or beyond Na- The remedy is to be found in the lure; it is sim ply the order that we new scientific m eanings of old discover in the changes of the oh- words. Look out for such mean- jective world around us. In S o ci-; ings in the Torch hereafter. I °logy or M orals, it is the order of t . b . w . 5 “LUO” U I S E T FREE. SIZ SIZ SIZ SIZ SIZ SIZ SIZ SIZ LBERAL UNIVERSITY T« e OREGON. 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