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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1900)
TH E TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, JU N E 14, 1900. country at least, if there if iu a n y 'b e dangerous. The sam e bitterness IA /H A T IA/ C U / W I C country, an educational institution was shown against it which was XX HM Vt cltrtB-n O . / \l__ rx 11_____ _ i | Q P " th a t is entirely’ free to teach th e pUown against Oberlin College, now whole tru th , and th a t is w hat a wi,lely known as an evangelical University Number of Freethought Magazine tt • . ... ¡«stronghold. Im v e rs ity should be able to do. Hnn„ _ n , ,, , U i t l i P e a rl W. < }< er’s portrait 15c v . . A8 poou ag a word was uttered, bor instance, suppose a professor in the open war began. The President Epitome of Positive Philnsnphv our most L iberal college should sav the Universitv bad the honor to By !'. B. W akeman to lus class of stu d en ts studying ù m attackPd. Words were put Freethought: Part? Present and Future U1to his m outh which he never theology, th at God had no more to By T. B. W akeman , with picture do with w riting the Bible, or in- ’’ttered, words were suppressed and life of the author. Price, 12 which he had utterpd, and reports copies, $1,00; ea ch ....................... Oc spiring men to write it, than in were circulated th a t he was verv w riting Shakespeare. He would unsound, although at th at time he EmiiiCipitiuii of Education. An Inaugural Address, by T. B. be im m ediately discharged and was a trustee of n o h a rt College W akeman , Delivered on the incor turned out into the world to starve. and professor elect in Yale College, poration of the Liberal Universitv Price............................................. 5c Now, there is not an intelligent two institutions whose “ soundness” will hardly be brought into ques Photographs of the Faculty professor in any university in the tion. of the Liberal University, suit Professor Agassiz was denounced, Pearl W. Geer and th e Liberal world who does not know’ th a t such able for framing. Price............. 5 0 c a statem ent is as true as that four although every scientific m an U n iversity. and four are eight knows him to be the great bulwark Torch of Reason Song Book No. 2. Cornell U niversity, established nf " ,e ch a «aina‘ the D? ? Price......................................... 1Oc [From Freethought Magazine for June.] Freethought Magazine Pearl \V. Geer, whose p o rtra it some th irty years ago.it was claim ed was attacked for those very doc- for September, Ingersoll memo appears as the frontispiece of this was to be a perfectly free institu- trines regarding creation which are rial number; October, with tion, where the tru th could be free- I now conceded in the orthodox book num ber of th is m agazine, is a young ly Wakeman’s speech; November, taught. And d u rin g the first I of the R ev- D r- Thom pson. with picture of L. U. O. faculty. m an of only tw enty-seven years of years of its existence it gave great , Pro,(e,Bii°.r ,Go'?.win , S m ith , waR Price...............................15c age this present m onth, but he is . . . 7 also attacked, although one of the Forstner Auger Bit encouragem ent to the friends o f , mo8t self-sacrificing and tru ly re- about as well known to the Free Price, any size.......................... 6 0 c th in k ers of this country as any I niversal M ental Liberty. It en-1 ligious men, and a com m uning gaged as its teachers 3uch indepen- church member. Liberal and Scientific Books other F reeth in k er of A m erica, and o uoui en t thinkers Professors George W illiam Curtis tuuiavic as n Andrew u u ic n D. W »» hite, III If, -- of all kinds. See advertisement this knowledge of him extends to Lowell were p „ aaoii n r d x and Jam es Russell Low’e elsewhere. Kussell, Prof. Oliver, Prof.* ., . , ... , .. . foreign countries. T his extensive r t rot. Send all orders to u • o -. l attacked, although their lectuies Goldwin ► . m ith, I rof. Geo. \V illiam were purely literary; and, T h e L ib e r a l U n iv e r s it y C o , . ----- ,----- ----------j , ---- , to cap acquaintance with him comes from Silverton, Oregon C urtis, and Prof. Jam es R u sse ll! the clim ax, heresy was detected in the fact th at he is the special agent in the work of building up the L ib Lowell, and others of less note, b u t ! the earnest prayer at recent public We believe th a t cardn lik e th e follow ing copy, equally as liberal in their religious exerci8e8, though made by a pastor neatly p rin te d a n d d istrib u te d all over th e U nit eral U niversity established in S il views. These broad-m inded men who“ or‘hodo,xy ,wa8. S tates, w ill help us to b u ild th e L iberal U ni ^ « r e ed versity. R eader, how m any can you d is trib u te to verton, Oregon, the only U niversity . . . questioned, and who is a trustee of gotxi advantage? T his will Cost you n o th in g b u t effort, and may help th e canse of Free- di( not propose to attack any creed, one of ^})e mos^ venerable evan- a th little of the kind in the world. A nd we o u g h t very m uch or introduce any new religious ! gelical colleges in the land, consider it the m ost im p o rtan t ideas, only to teach scientific, de-1 Our R esident F aculty have fared , ...F IV E ... work the F reeth in k ers have ever Í m onstrated tru th , and to keep the | no better- Though selected from REASONS W H Y undertaken, and every friend of ;ncd:(n (' SL k you .... o. e . j • . , the leading C hristian Colleges of institution as the founders intend- • , 6 . .. 5 , ,, F reethought should assist Mr. Geer . . . . . various denom inations; though all ed, free from sectarianism . These | bore the highest com m endations in the u n d ertak in g to the extent of 8 hould H e l p to B u il d his or her ability, for if it is to grand men, who were am ong the j from the faculties of those institu- truest, bravest and noblest this | tions; though all, so far as I know, prove a success it m ust be by the country ever produced, tried their i are members of or atte n d a n t upon ^ L ib e r a l U niversity assistance and co-operation of peo . . . ... j , I C hristian churches, portions of the AT SILVER TO N , OREGON. .. . r , ple who are free from superstition. best to c a r r 7 y o u t the 6 grand work ! t com m unity have been led to be- Xo others can be expected to aid it. they ha I undertaken, but they had j ljeVe th a t these men are plotting 1 It will help many young men and And as there are very few rich men not more than got well started in ¡against C hristianity. young women to a higher education who th eir work before the bigots of the Of all this, sir, I m ake not the otherwise will grow up without its great who are outspoken and in d ep en country commenced to scent h e re sy ,! ^¡K htest com plaint. Those of us advantages. dent F reeth in k ers, the contributions , , ~ 1. tt • • who have pledged our lives and 2 It will educate workers for the great and charge th a t Cornell U n.versity fortunP8 t'hig bBuilding up of w hat forward march of Freethought and Pro m ust evidently come m ostly from gress. was run by pagans and haters of we th in k a better and broader uni- poor men, an d therefore it is very 3 It will forever silence the accusation necessary th a t each Liberal con C hristianity, and a united effort versity education expected such at- that Secularists have never done any was made by orthodox C hristians tacks—and perhaps they are the thing. tribute w hat he can afford to. 4 It will hasten the time when Reason everywhere to destroy th a t institu- j r,i?st 8Ure R’^ n8 th ftt the work is and Love will reign, and when supersti There are probably 50,000 professed .. . . . * . going on well. We sim ply cona tion and hate will tie forever gone. F reethinkers in th is country, and ifj tion, and in a few years they sue- meR(j thege fact8 t0 eVery thought- 5 It will give you an opportunity to build yourself and others a monument, each would give the sm all sum of ceeded in driving out of th a t Uni- fu l m an and woman. while you yet live, that will do a million most of these Liberal pro- a , , . , . 82 it would give this new in s titu versity . j .. , I h a t was the kind of treatm en t times more good than the most costly tion $100,000, which would place it fessors, and those whom they did th a t Cornell U niversity received one of cold, senseless marble. on a firm and perm anent basis. not drive out they p u t a muzzle on. from the orthodox C hristians, ju st Only th in k of it. If each one of us Prof. Oliver felt compelled to join because it proposed to be non- If all help a little , w e can a c will contribute this sm all sum , we the U n itarian C hurch, th a t he sectarian. Bigotry is not quite as com plish m uch. W ill you help will have an in stitu tio n in this m ight be known as a C hristian, not ra m p a n t today as it was then, but a little ? country th a t will be the lig h t of w ithstanding this good man (no no in stitu tio n would now be allow the world. An in stitu tion th a t will better ever lived), was always at ed to live where C hristians had the Six Tracts to Promote h eart as Liberal in his views as attract the atten tio n of every in least control, th a t should declare Col. Ingersoll. telligent friend of H um an Progress itself as th e especial advocate of To prove the tru th of what we a8certained tru th on a „ que8tion8 in all civilized countries. In Place of Christianity: have above stated about the attack In 8aying thj8 we are u. uolu8u, r , It m ay be said th a t the old and 1 Can Sins be Forgiven? well-established colleges and u n i m ade y the C lristian s on orne ]east blam ing the professors of the 2 Does Christianity or Science Promote Civil- versities are becoming very free, U niversity, we will here quote from present e8tablished educational i n - 1 12atl0,1? and * are doing ° m uch to liberate the I public and the m inds of th eir s tu dents from m edieval superstition, . — ng the best they November, 1870: <.!»».«».♦ .u and th a t we therefore need no ’ circum stances— the oest . they can others. T h at they are more L ib From the day when Mr. Cornell’s and keep th eir places. to hand to your Christian friends. Send T hus it appears conclusively th a t eral th an form erly we readily a d offer was m ade to give a large sum 2 cents for 6, or 6 cents for 25 tracts, to E liza M owry B livkn , Brook to establish the university, there we need a university built up and mit, and we rejoice th a t we can lyn, Conn., or send 10 cents have been a few persons eager in established by em ancipated men tru th fu lly m ake the adm ission, for 50, either kind or as scenting out heresy. Before a stone and women, where C hristian super- 8orM?a sorted KinaB kinds, lo to nevertheless th e tru th com pels us was laid or an officer chosen, it was stR ution has not the least control— T lJ r- . to say th a t th ere is not, in this hinted h th at the institution was to . ,,n Gth pa~ THE L B s,R^(0Ln o^ olftVE:RS,TY’ 0 .0 1 /. o -------------------------- Scientific Wisdom