T orch ••TRUTH BEARS THE TORCH IN THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH.”— Lucretius. VOL. 4. SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, JU LY 12, E. M. 300(1900.) Now. NO. 27. ceive the sanction of religion, which feelings, pessimism is exclusively a I rendered it vastly more difficult to product of reason and resides in the! ISK , for th e day is passing, dislodge them . T his herculean task ' ’‘dellect. Optim ism is that hope IN And you lie dream in g on ; u • • of t □ • * for th T he o th ers have buckled th e ir arm o r has been the mission Science, , a o t “ sp rin g s e te rn a l in , th e , . h u m a n - 4 i b reast a n d defies th e h a rd facts of ’T ' t _ z2k M a « , , And forth to the fight fiave gone. the tru th lies deeply buried u n a e r existence. Pessimism recognizes th e ■ “ C I N C W W o r ld , A place in th e ran k s aw aits y ou; E ach m an has som e p a rt to p la y ; th is m ass of error at the surface, facts and coldly chokes every hope ________ T he past am i th e fu tu re are noth in g and can only be brought to light its birth. B ut pessimism is also A I AV C C D IIM I In th e face of the ste rn today. by the most prolonged and patient first’ l)**cause m any hopes are A LAY dtHMON R ise ; if th e p a st d e ta in s you, ' rooao-nk - *: realized, and secondly, becaus** the research in »i the t face s of .u this time-1 _ c L . r. .. .. H e r su n sh in e and sto rm s fo rg et; , , ... representation Ul the present of the F irs t D elivered in U n ity Chapel Rev. D r. W . E No ch ain s so u n w o rth y to hold you The New Life R h o n o red p re ju d ic e . 1 he p ro g re ss good a n tic ip a te d in th e fu tu re is it- As those of a vain regret. of m an and society has been strictly self a good at least of secondary Sad or b rig h t, she is lifeless e v e r; C ast h er phan to m arm s aw av, proportioned to the degree to which order. Nor look back, save to learn th e lesson hidden realities have thus been W hat, th en , is m an’s true rela­ Of a nobler strife today. Copeland), s « k m , Oregon, B y T H A D D E U S B. W A K EM A N , PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY, E T C ., LIBERAL U NIVERSITY, SILVERTON, OREGON. substituted for false appearances. tion to the universe? Is there a A3 a som ew hat anom alous but true m ental a ttitu d e th a t lies he- „ , tween these two false attitudes? T exts : very im p o rtan t exam ple of the er- There cerlainly is. n js a b„. “ T he Laws of N atu re m u st be u n d e r­ stood before th ey can he obeyed ; only roueous ideas which the hum an lief or a creed; it is the simple th rough th is u n d e rsta n d in g can m an rise race m ust needs acquire and re- recognition of the tru th . The trutli to th e m astery of its pow ers an d b rin g lu ctan tly surrenders, m ay next be ’s’ n atu re is neither friendly him self into final h arm o n y w ith its c o n ­ considered the optim istic h ab it o{- " ° r hostile t o . “ .“ "; "e 'th e r favors d itio n s .’’—Prof. E . L. Y o u m an s. See . . him nor discrim inates against him. In tro d u ctio n to his “ C o rrelatio n an d thought. Oi-TiMtsM can scarcely he N ature i8 not endowed with anv C onservation of F o rces.” “ W h at, th e n , is m a n ’s tru e relatio n to The World of Illusion-O ptim ism , called a doclrine I t does not re- moral attrib u tes. It is, as I said th e U niverse? . . . The tr u th is th a t Pessim ism , Meliorism—All suit, like most erroneous beliefs, at the outset, a dom ain of rigid n a tu re is n e ith e r friendly nor hostile to m a n ; n e ith e r favors him n o r d isc rim ­ Righted by Science. from a false in terp retatio n pf the law. Man is a product of th at law, in ates ag ain st h im . N atu re is n o t e n ­ facts which n atu re presents to th e but, he has reached a stage on dowed w ith any moral a ttrib u te s . I t is BY PR O FESSO R L E S T E R F . W A R D . , , , . _ . , - which he can com prehend the law. a dom ain of rigid law . Man is a p ro d u ct u n trained faculties. It is ra th e r Now>just because n atu re is a do- of th a t law, b u t he h as reached a stage the original, unreflective state of main of rigid law, and just because in w hich he can com prehend th e law. H E first im p o rtan t fact to be the pre-social m ind. It is the su r­ man can com prehend th a t law, bis . . . Any law he can com prehend he control. H is d estin y is in h is own noted is th a t to m an ’s slowly vival of the most useful of all in ­ destiny is in his own hands. Any can h a n d s.” —Prof. L ester F. W ard. “ O u t­ developing intellect the u n i­ stincts, th a t of self-preservation. low th a t he can com prehend he can lines of Sociology ;” pp. 25-30. “ N atu re is w holly unmoral . T he verse has ever been a great enigm a. It was well adapted to th a t state, control. He cannot increase or m oral world is confined exclusively to To solve this enigm a has been the because to the anim al it m attered dim inish the powers of nature, but anim al life, including, of course, h u m an he can direct them . He can in life. Yet it is n o t to be d esp ised .” — universal problem of the hum an not w hether it was true or false. It crease or dim inish the am ount o Ib id . ; p. 09. “ T elesih , in d iv id u al and collective, m ind. B ut m an has been p u t into is still a useful a ttitu d e to the power th a t is to he exerted at any i. e., social, becomes his S av io r.” possession of no key to this solu­ sw arm ing m illions of hum an beings given point. H e can focalize the tion and has attacked the problem who do not reflect. B ut for it the rays of the s u n ; he can divert the HOSE of you who courses of the rivers; he can direct wildly and a t random , u tterly u n ­ realization of their unhappy lot, present at this m orning’s the currents of the air; he can vary qualified to m ake the least im ­ which it prevents, would m ultiply tem peratures; he can change water discourse, rem em ber how it pression upon it. The book of th eir m isery and render life in to l­ to steam and set the steam to work was shown, by an outline h is­ n ature which was open to him was erable But we are here consider- in Pr° pell‘n« "?achi“ e ry, or sbjP8. tory of Religion and 0 / Science, . . or railroad train s; he can utilize th a t both had started in a confused but a collection oi S ibylline leaves ing its enect upon society, and , it is th a t had been first stirred by the easy to show th a t it is had. I t electricity. H is power over nature m ultiplicity of things an d ideas, is unlim ited. H e can m ake it his wind. Not only were things not breeds stagnation and stifles servant and ap p ro p riate to his own which had finally been covered by alw ays as they seemed, b u t outside progress. It yields contentm ent, u s e a ^ the m ighty forces of the uni- the unity of one grand and sim ple of the very sim plest phenom ena, and contentm ent means inaction. Verse- concept of an ever-existing W orld Both optim ism and pessimism of Law. In a word, th at the m inds everything was utterly different S trange as it m ay sound, ju st as from w hat it seemed. A lm o st1 the only health y state of the intel- are passive states of mind. The of men startin g their religion w ith ev ery th in g was really ju st the re- lect is doubt, eo the only healthy true state is an active one. Opti- num berless spirits, devils and gods, state of the feelings is discontent, mism and pessim ism assum e nature ' < rse of w hat it seem ed , a n d th e qq,jg of course assum es th a t there to be in an active state toward had finally in th e evolution of r e ­ universe was a vast paradox. The is som ething to doubt and some- m an. The true a ttitu d e m akes na- ligious progress from A nim istic sky seemed to be a g reat vault of thing to improve, but there has ture passive and m an active. To Fetichisrn, during the course of ages solid m atter, which he called for never been an age when error did the developed intellect nature is as culm inated in the triu m p h of U ni- this reason a “ firm am ent.” The not stalk abroad or when misery clay in the p o tter’s hands. I t is tarian ism , which is the only tru e was not the lot of the greater p art neither best nor worst. I t is w hat heavenly bodies seemed to move of m ankind. m an m akes it, and rational man M onotheism , with its one G o d . across th is vault at varying rates, The phase of optimism which always seeks to m ake it better, T h a t upon m a n ’s other, or object­ and their reappearance led to the most concerns the question of the The true doctrine, then, is melior- ive side, S cience , overwhelmed w ith notion th a t they revolved around relation of society to the universe ism the perpetual bettering of num berless things and resem ­ the great level cake of e a rth and j9 th a t whicb J ” a n ’“ e’.,a te - T h is ’vil1 be . have called the ‘anthropocentric in precise proportion to m a n ’s blances, but com m encing w ith As- water on which he dwelt. i lie ln ' theory.” The idea th a t m an is in knowledge of n atu re, so th at the stronom y, had through ages risen visible air an d other gases were any 8ense a favorite of nature is condition of the race ultim ately de- rom th a t one departm ent of N a tu re likened to m ind or spirit. All false and highly prejudicial to the pends upon the degree of intelli- to the others, until finally it has t r i­ natural causes were explained after progress of correct co n cep tio n s in gence th a t it shall attain . um phed in Monism, its one concept the analogy of h u m an effort in the 9"«,ial 8cien“ - . U “ »? J? ’ ” ay b