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Our C ontribution Box is alw ays
open, w hether we are having a
Donation Day or not.
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page entitled “ A Liberal Offer.” It
h as a new addition this week, and
we hope it will have another next
week.
C arpenters, painters and tinners
have been working on the L. U. O.
building the past week, and just as
we go to press the last ol the scaf
folding is falling. Now for the
porch and the inside work.
J u s t as we anticipated, the dona
tions were not all in when we went
to press last week, and we are
pleased to p rin t a good list in this
issue. Probably this will rem ind
others who have not contributed
th at it is “ better late than never,”
and we shall be pleased to hear
from them .
The later contributions for Do
nation Day are acknowledged in
the “ Contribution Box” this week.
T his am ount, together with the
sum acknowledged last week, makes
the total amount, received for this
occasion, $226.90. Let us thank
you all once more for your kind
consideration of this great en ter
prise, which, with these friends, is
bound to succeed. We are no less
grateful to those whose nam es a p
pear in the contribution box this
week than we are to those m en
tioned last week. We th an k you,
one and all.
The Bible God is a m yth.
M iracles were never really per
formed.
The Bible story of creation is not
true.
The Bible is not a good guide.
The sermon on the m ount is not
an infallible guide.
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ci viiiZtttiuii.
C h ristian ity does not advance
m orality.
We wish to meet our Tillam ook
opponents in a friendly wav and
discuss any of the above or kindred
subjects on or before A ugust 1st.
W ill they accommodate us?
J. E. H osmer , President L.U.O.
P. O. Box No. 106.
The above challenge we extend
to any of the m inisters of the gos-
pel(?) of Jesus C hrist in the world,
and if distance, etc., prevents a r
rangem ents for our m eeting, we
shall be pleased to give our oppon
ents equal space in our Torch of
Reason. “ Come now, and let us
reason together.”
“ The Dead Study of Dead
L angu ages.”
This was the h ap p y phrase by
which T hom as Paine described the
stupid stu d y of Greek and L atin
in his day, chiefly to prevent the
knowledge th a t would lead to the
em ancipation of the Peonies. The
phrase occurs in the E x tra c t on
the second column of this paper,
page 1, n in th line from the bottom,
which, instead of “dead languages,”
should read “ the dead studv of
dead languages.” The omission was
a p rin ter’s accident, and we take
this way of calling attention to the
omission and to the im portance of
We gratefully acknowledge the the words them selves. We hope
receipt of a com plim entary ticket th a t all of those E x tracts will he
to an excursion from Chicago to read and considered as proofs and
Michigan City on Sunday, August illu stra tio n s of the constructive
12th, at 9:30 a. m., from the foot of purpose of Paine’s religious wait
State street. This excursion is ings, which were the real basis of
given by the Chicago Liberal So his R epublicanism . To read Paine
ciety, one of the few societies hold from th a t point of view is needful,
ing meetings through the sum m er but may be unusual, so we rep rin t
season. This society deserves the for re-reading the most relevant
hearty support and co-operation of paragraphs from the Age o f Reason.
But nothing was more incisive
every Liberal in the neighborhood
than those words om itted. The
of Chicago. You are welcome every use of study to prevent or m isdirect
Sunday m orning, 11 o’clock, at the learning, wisdom and progress is
meetings in C orinthian H all, 17th one of the most interesting c h a p
floor of the Masonic Temple, where ters in the history of oppression by
Dr. T. B. Gregory will tell you repression. M acaulay alludes to it
as the principal m eans bv which
som ething you need to know. Mr. th e progress of the Reform ation
G. B. Wheeler, 221 V ilas Place, the was arrested by the Jesuits, who
chairm an of this excursion, will he became largely the schoolm asters
pleased to tell you all about it and 1 of Europe. The P rotestants proved
furnish round trip tickets for only themselves ready adepts at the
same game as soon as they became
75 cents.
the educators, nor have they for
gotten the m ethods to this day. It
A CHALLENGE.
is because of th a t fact th a t our
Liberal U niversity is a necessary
The following appeared in the suggestion and m eans of the em an
Tillamook H eadlight and the T ill cipation of education. The most
illusory, or rath er treacherous, in
amook H erald, Ju ly 26:
stitu tio n s in these respects a r t
A CHALLENGE.
those which are called “ non-sec
To the end th a t the great U n i ta ria n ,” in which no religion or
versal cause of T ruth and R ight morals are really taught, for the
may be advanced, I hereby c h a l fear of offending somebody. These
lenge any of the ordained m inisters are sim ply monumei ts of im po
of the city of Tillam ook to publicly tence and indifference,if not of m oral
debate any of the following su b cowardice. Every m an and woman
jects:
worthy of the nam e, and who is
The Ingersoll Chair
abreast with this age, knows p e r
fectly well th a t hum an life, and
therefore education, must be pre
The am ounts subscribed and paid
sided over by G od and his theo-
logic priests or servants, or by in for the Ingersoll C hair are set
M an , in the interests of Science forth below. This sum is actu ally
and H u m an ity ; th a t the object and
u ltim ate of the first is the old in the hands of our treasurer to he
ritim n p d r e a m
of a “ H eaven” of safely invested, the income only to
“celestial m ansions;” the object of 1 be used.
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the other is the healthy, hearty,
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useful life on this earth as the be M r. Alfred M arsh,
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ginning and anticipation of the M rs. E . H olyoake M arsh,
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“ E a rth ly P aradise,” which, as sure Mr. Rotiert Xpplegarth,
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as the law of Evolution, we are M r. J . M. G unson,
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M r. Sidney G hi ton,
m an is now called upon to decide M r. Jo h n Leach,
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w hether his life and service is to M r. T hos. Allsop,
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he devoted to spook ghosts, and a Mr. W . H olyoake B yron Sm ith
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m irage dream , with their Sham ans Miss P h ip so n ,
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and F akirs, or to the H um an W orld Dr. G . Sw orn,
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of Scienee and M an , which is the M rs. H olyoake S m ith ,
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present reality, and our and their in M iss J u lia C. S m ith ,
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evitable hum an future on this M r. T. R. M udie,
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M r. A. S u m n er.
ea ith . The idea of putting spooks M rs. D aniel B aker
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and dream s at the head of modern H e rb e rt S pencer.
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education! Paine was entirely right M r. Ja s. W allace, S c o tla n d .. . .
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in his day about the “classical
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Geo. N. H ill, B oston, M a s s ....
studies” and the use m ade of them , E v a Ingersoll Brown, N. Y. . . .
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which ended in the “ industrious ig Prof. D aniel T. Ames, C a l.........
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norance” of Latin versification, Benj. D uval, C ol...........................
which drew the sarcasm of even
the old Tory, Dr. Sam. Johnson.
T hen the Science of Linguistics
C o n tr ib u tio n B ox.
was not. Now it is the backbone
and largely the substance of H u
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By words the Philosophy of the
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unconsciously recorded hv the race.
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to us the reins, by which we are to
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drive the coursers of tim e onward
D onation Day c o n trib u tio n s 207.80
into the Future.
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Jo h n Wolfe, M t. M orris, III.
M athematics are the keys to the
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W arren P enw ell, P a n a , III..
I objective world and its sciences—
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W. M arq u ard so n , Scipio, U.
from the stars— up to Man.
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H . A llen, S ilv erto n , O re .. . .
L inguistics , the m odern’ Science
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J. D iam ond, C oburg, O r e ...
of Language, places in our hands
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V. H iggins, P t. Isab el, Ohio
the keys which unlock the past,
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J . M cA rdle, O m aha, Neb. ..
make intelligible our present, and
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Buffalo,
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open to our entranced sight the
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glorious transfo: m ation scenes of
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E .C . Jo n e s, E ast L ynne,M o.
the H um an Paradise.
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M. M. D aw scn, New York .
Of all of the E m ancipations of
Science, th at of language— its ori
gin, contents, laws and results, is
only equalled in interest and u tility
by the progress of A stronom y.
W ould that Paine could have fore
seen som ething of th a t!— which the
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students of L. U. O. may 90011 hope
to begin to see.
T . b . w .
A Liberal Offer.
A good friend of the L. U. O. has
offered to donate Two T housand
D ollars in cash to our institu tio n if
other F reethinkers will raise it to
Five T housand.
Let us fill up the contribution
box!
L ater — Mr. R. C. B urtis of M ich
igan adds one thousand dollars to
the above offer. At this rate we
will soon be able to go ahead with
our building. “ A friend who helps
quick helps double.”
S till L ater .— A friend in Silver-
ton offers fifty dollars on the above
plan. The am ount already re
ceived and acknowledged in the
C ontribution Box, goes to help
m ake up the balance of this fund,
which now lacks only $1552.35 o f
being complete. C an't we, by a
special effort, reach this am ount
before Septem ber 1 st?
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