“TRUTH BEARS THE TORCH IN THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH. "—Lucretius. VOL. 4. V«.»- c SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY,¡AUGUST 9, E. M. 300 (1900.) I- Ä -■»— WM NO. 31. T»r»F"'»b to transcend nature in Galileo G alilei, an d th e S tru g g le New M o r a lity . constructing an ethical theory and | BY PERCY BI8SHE SHELLEY. R e g a rd in g th e Position fram ing an ethical sanction. Work of th e E a r th . P anthea (fem inine of P an th eo s) sings. 'E x tra c ts from a su m m ary of th e ing on the lines laid down by H er That is T he A ll , as G oddess evokes th e “ W e ltra th se l” (w orld enigm a) of Prof. bert Spencer, we come to a view of New S p irits. See article on page 5]: E rn e st H aeckel, by Jo sep h McCabe, in m orality which is com petent to BY CA RI S ST E R N E . W a tt s ’ L iterary G uide for A pril.] T he pine-boughs are singing meet the requirem ents of life and Old songs w ith new g lad n ess; which claim L ” T I V I? : • 3 J n m v i l l harm l d l U D onizes H I ( those I I I W C la im s s o of i ! r r? t A f X* I • A* XV T he willows and fo u n tain s E L IE I ,n a god or g o d s - I egoifm an(1 allnli(ini, of w lf and [E x tr a c t, from an a rt.c le th e O pen F resh m usic are flinging, and P ro f. Haeckel treats our neighbor, which have been so / A«g“»». I.WO.J Likes th e notes of a sp irit from land an d from s e a ; exhaustively (an d causti- grossly distorted in C hristian ethics, I M OYES, just the sam e,’’ The sto rm s mock th e m o u n tain s cally) the innum erable forms of ^ an belongs to the social or gre- G alileo is said to have ex W ith th e th u n d e r of gladness. th a t belief— r a s a tem porary spec- p r i o n s vertebrates; he has, there-1 B ut w here are ye? claim ed, stam ping his foot, .r • , .. fore, n atu rally , “ two sets of duties— ; ulation which the m neteentii cen- firstly, tow ards 'T. 1 himself; : ir secondly, Jt t after having, before the court of the CHORUS OF SPIRITS. tury has rendered superfluous and towards the society he belongs to ?’ H oly Inquisition Jon J u n e 22,1633, W e com e from th e m ind Of h u m an -k in d , untenable. I t was based, in so far This moral equality of egoism and abjured faith in the heretical teach- W hich was late so d u sk , and obscene, as it had an elem ent of ra tio n ality , altruism is the fundam ental p rin ing of the m ovem ent of the earth and b lin d ; on the gaps in our knowledge of ciple of the monistic ethics, the around the sun. But the d elig h t Now ’tis an ocean basis and fount of “ the golden Of clear em otion, nature. A stronom ical, biological, A heaven of serene an d m ighty m otion. ru le.” The author then enters ful anecdote belongs, u n fo rtu n ately , and physiological discoveries have into a critical analysis of C hristian to the great m ultitude of those From th a t deep abyss sufficiently filled up those gaps to ethics, which he severely condem ns which it has latterly become the Of w onder and bliss, W hose caverns are crystal p alaces: m ake the old hypothesis no longer for its belittlem ent of (1) self, custom to designate the a fte r From those skiey tow ers even plausible. Modern science (2) love, (3) nature, (4) civilization, thoughts of m an or of history. W h ere T h o u g h t’s crow ned pow ers Sit w atching your dance, ye h ap p y has to say to the T heist who asks (5) the fam ily, and (ft) woman. N othing could have been fu rth e r H o u rs! where God comes in iu his con from the m ind of th e intim id ated From th e dim recesses F o rm a tio n of O pinions. struction of the cosmos, in the Of woven caresses, scientist th an sudi a defiant recan W here lovers catch ye by your loose words of L aplace to Napoleon; tation, for it would have been tre s s e s ; BY H O R A C E S E A V E R . “ Sir, I have m anaged w ithout th a t From th e azure isles neither more nor less than a c h a l W here sw eet W isdom sm iles, hypothesis.” The supposed com- LL men are born equal with lenge of the powerful by the weak. D elaying y o u r ships w ith h e rs y re n wiles. mencemHiit of the scheme of things, regard to the form ation of If Galileo had felt the slightest in F ro m th e tem ples high on which all belief in a Creator Of M a n ’s e ar an d eye, opinions; by nature they clination to become a m arty r to his Roof’d over S cu lp tu re am i P oesy; and “ prim e m over” is founded, was are allowed the free exercise of convictions, like G iordano Bruno, From th e m u rm u rin g s a gratuitous assum ption, and is u t their own judgm ents, equality in and had he been the stuff of which Of th e u n se a l’d springs W here Science bedews his Daedal w ings. terly discountenanced by modern investigating, considering, and de m arty rs are made, he would not Y ears a fte r years, astronom y. The origin of life term ining upon all subjects. Yet, have taken th a t oath. B ut the T hrough blood an d tears, And a th ick hell of h a tre d s, and hopes, needs no su p ern atu ral in terv en notw ithstanding this tru th will be anecdote is not w ithout value, for an d fears, tion, neither does the origin of universally adm itted— in the ab it allows him to voice w hat he W e waded and flew, thought, of religion, or of m orality. stract— it seems to be generally surely at th a t m om ent thought A nd th e islets were few, W here th e b u d -blighted flowers of h a p Science and philosophy point to the disregarded in the application to and felt in the depths of his soul, piness grew . religion. Hence it is common to , . unity of the cosmos. E very form hear the rem ark, by those who de- an< , w,’at <),ber adherents of Coper- O ur feet now , every palm , and phase of Theism is denuded of uounce innovations upon the pop- n *CUH, firm in their own faith, may A re s a n d a ll’d w’ith calm , And th e dew of o u r w ings is a rain of argum entative basis, besides the u lar religious belief, th at opinions have wished to hear him acknowl- b alm . fact th a t the dom inant conception ! ought to be governed by the general edge. So it has come about th a t A nd, beyond our eyes, T he h u m an love lies of a personal God— the notion of a sentim ent. th is unspoken th o u g h t, although W hich m akes all it gazes on P aradise . B ut this course, besides d irec tly , . .. , , , huge “gaseous v e r t e b r a t e ,” as tending to destroy all freedom of un,ver8ally acknowledged to be of CHORUS OF SPIRITS AND HOURS. T hen weave th e web of th e m ystic Haeckel puts it—is even less ra conscience, would, perpetuate the later origin, has become a house- m e a s u re ; tional in itself, and is ju st as clear superstition and ignorance which it hold word. Even now it ceases From th e d e p th s of th e sky th e round of ly a reflection of hum an thought is desirable to remove, and prevent not to serve as an inspiration when th e e a rth , diffusion of the knowledge a. r»u. „u : •* / . , Come sw ift S p irits of M ight and of as any th a t has preceded it in the the »,i.;„k .,ii _____ j the C hurch, in «pit« of «uch unfor- P leasu re, which all deem necessary and de N othing Fill th e d ance and th e m usic of m irth , history of mysticism. sire to see progressive. We should tu n ate experiences, arrogates to As th e waves of a th o u sa n d stre am s short of Pantheism or A theism is not adopt opinions merely because herself a decision in questions ru sh by To an Ocean of S p len d o r and H a rm o n y ; reconcilable with modern know l they are popular; if the error is which do not come under her ju r is edge of reality. Atheism is but general, so much the greater should diction. CHORUS OF SPIRITS. one expression of the negative as he the exertion to , destroy it. . . . If, , And o u r singing shall build the Rom an Catholic by ignorance or by some blind , Hence , In th e v o id ’8 loose Held pect of Pantheism . As Schopen- A W orld for th e S p irit of W isdom to . fanaticism , the generality of m an , cliurcn m ust even now be grateful w ie ld ; hauer wrote: “ The axiom of the kind have been deceived into error, t° Galileo, th a t through his com- W e will ta k e our plan Pantheist, ‘God and the world are m ust a m an for the sake of popu- pliance and weakness he saved her From th e N ew W orld of M an, And o u r work shall be called th e P ro one, is on lly a polite way of giving larity join in the concert of decep- from apnlving the torch to his m eth ea n . ,.o n’ a n <J ih e ho" est sentim ents of f j V Qth j gh |d the Lord God his conge.” his m ind rem ain lost and inactive? ,unerai '^ » e rw is t, sue wouiu SEMI-CHORUS I. The ethical[q u e stio n has a dis- If the opinions of m ankind are have been much raore seriously Ceaseless, an d rap id , an d fierce, an d tree, W ith th e S p irits w hich build a new e a rth tinct im portance and interest, so to rem ain fixed, when th eir only afflicted th an by the burning of -»1 « Z —- »A. _ l l • e ' • - • I a « — a - — — » « - and sea, the au th o r discusses it at length, claim s to belief are an tiq u ity and G iordano B runo (1600). B runo it Knd a heaven w here y e t heaven could _ A • • • * is who was condem ned, not o n ly never lie ; scientific tru th th a t “ there are not (ou,ltpring opposition or of being as an adherent of the C opern ican SEMI-CHORUS II. . j - . . . j . it unpopular, w hat advance or im- Solem n, and slow, an d serene and b rig h t, two distinct and separate worlds— provem in aii any system , which in his Ash W ednes- r_____ _ ent coujd we expect 1M l^ a r lin r r th o H a v n n ri n n 1 ntz t r i p ____ — i ___ i _..*^-L.l il.« : I G -ading th e Day an d o utspeeding th e o n e p h y s ic a l and m aterial, the knowledge o fV n y V in S T * Oppose I day Communion he defended W ith th e pow ers of a world of perfect other moral and im m aterial.’ No the liberty of thought, the Oxfort „ . and you re- against „ Oxford opponents, and light, system of m orality th at contra- tard the progress of knowledge; en- further advocated in a book w hich We encircle th e ocean and m o u n ta in s of venes this tru th is any longer ten- courag* investigation, and a new anDeared «he same year, Concern- . u i,. / , i i era ari8Ps; knowledge of all kinds appearea e a rth , able. K ant bu.lt up the two halve« adval)ce8 ’witb & , w d d ing the E lerr Ami th e happy form s of its d eath and ternal, the U niverse, and b irth of his philosophy in sheer self-con- m an becomes, as it were, a new the W orlds, but especially as a Free Change to th e m usic of our sweet m irth . But there is no need creature.—[Occasional Thoughts. | thinker, who had pursued the reg- —[From P ro m eth eu s U nliound. Act IV . tr a d itio n . • 4M A OVt* I II v iu u d a n t i in c w n .n e v er B I w A A 9 * A ^ J