T orch of K e a s o n . “TRUTH BEARS THE TORCH IN THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH. VOL. 4. ___ SILVERTON, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, E. M. 300 (1900.) NO. 33. Mockery. act, for in my hearing a lady, who in superstition; and his own high The Work Begun. had been to see this compound be est faith was th a t “ they who die in H Y do we grudge o u r sw eets so BY SIN G LETO N W . DAVIS. ing, referred to the placards and a great cause” would to th e living, W ho, all know , find at best too handbills as giving a good repre m uch of gall, A ugm ent th e deep and sw eepingtthoughts CIENTIFIC minds are not A nd th e n w ith gei/erous, open h an d s sentation. If we suppose this lady AN hich overpow er all others e n d conduct satisfied with mere approx k neel, giving to have repeated in a letter that The world at last to freedom . U n to th e dead o u r all? imation to correctness. The which I heard her say, and if we W h’V o t s o rro w ? 6 ‘ h6 " 'a rl“ h e a rte ’ apk w h a t w " u ld a PP<‘a '' t b e ct,!>r i c His poems revealed the grandeur astronomer who would be willing undertake complex calculations W ith idle jests, or scorn, or cruel ^er of th e e v id e n c e to o n e w h o , of scenery, as well as history, and sneers, some fifty years hence, had before made delight in mountains and without caring for accuracy of de And w hen it can n o t know , on som e to him the advertisement, representa thunderstorms felt as an ennobling tail ,n every step would be consid- m orrow , Speak of its woe th ro u g h tears? tion and the letter, we shall see influence. His speeches in the ere(l very unscientific, and the W hat do th e dead care for th e ten d e r that the alleged fact would be House of Lords were pleas for par- chemist who would analyze sub- to k e n — by him incontestable. liamentary reform, Catholic eman- stances and tabulate the results The love, th e p raise,th e floral offerings ? thought B ut p a lp ita tin g , living h e a rts are broken Only if, after weary search through cipation, and mercy to rioters in without setting down the tenths, For w a n t of ju s t these th in g s. all the papers and periodicals of furiated by famine. In 1820. he hundredths, and even thousandths —[Selected. the time, he happened to come was one of the leading Carbonari in of his unit of measure, would be Italy; he gave his life to help the pronounced a mere dabbler. Thor« Influences V itiating Evidence uPon a certain number of the Lan cet, would he discover that this G re e k s become free; and his name oughness and exactness are the combination was not that of two is still a watchword of »•evolution. soul and spirit of Science in every BY H E B R E R T SPE N C E R His friend, Shelley, went so far department—investigation, observ heads on one body, but that of two ation, experimentation, generaliza LONG with much that has individuals united hack to back, in the same direction as to call him self a republican, as well as an tion. If so m physical science, of late years been done w’ith heads facing opposite ways, should they be any less so in re toward changing primitive and severally complete in all re Atheist. He had consecrated him self in boyhood to .war against all ligious science? This accuracy be- history into myth, and along with spects, except where the parts were ing a great factor in the recent much that has been done toward so fused as to form a double pelvis, j °PPre8HOrti> an^ his position to the wonderful development of the phy changing once-questioned estimates containing certain pelvic viscera ’as| " as that of his own Prome- fullering continually with sical sciences, would surely prove of persons and events of past ages, common to the two. If, then, re-1 enslaved, hut consoled by faith no less effective in religious evo much has been said about the un- specting facts of so simple and so: trustworthiness of historical evi- e“ i'y veriable a kind, where no ob- lbal l,ls sympathy will hasten the lution. The conditions upon which re dence. Hence there will be ready ,'iou9 niotive f,,r misrepresentation | ‘>■*? wl’en every man .hall k*ng over himself, when wo ligion has been and is still being acceptance of the statement that exists, we cannot count on true one of the impediments to socio representations, how shall we count j men> ^ree from custom’s evil taint,” developed from a lower to a higher on tiue representations of social | 8^a^' ,nake earth like heaven, when state becoming known, rules for logical generalization is the uncer tainty of our data. When we bear facts, which, being so diffused and I thrones, altars, judgment-seats, practical application in religious in mind that from early stories so complex, are so difficult to ob-jan<^ prisons “shall seem as anti culture in accordance therewith may he formulated and reduced to such as those about the Amazons, serve, and in respect of which the Quated as-the pyramids, and when perceptions are so much perverted human nature in»tnr« b shall B u II be 1«. “its “>»«, own practice, resulting in a rational their practices, the particular bat divine control.” He took the side tles with them and particular by interests, and prepossessions, of the poor against the rich in a voluntary evolution of religion analagous in method and modus events in those battles, all of which and party feelings? drama which was suppressed on operandi to muscular training, in are recorded and sculptured as cir In exemplifying this difficulty, account of its severity against tellectual education, æsthetic cul cumstantially as they might be let us limit ourselves to cases sup George IV., and which ends with a ture, etc. 1 he study of compara were \>A V the persons WtiM L and « VsVV'lJVOlim'"'* events his- plied by * the life of our own time, ' portentous scene, where tive religion, comprehending the toric—when we bear in mind, I i®aying it to be inferred that if, in history of its development in all say, that from such early stories a cornParatively calm and critical Freedom calls famine, her eternal foe forms in all countries and times, down to accounts of a well-known a8e> sociological evidence is vitiated To brief alliance, as a means of discovering the laws people like the New Zealander«, b>' ™Ho0. influences, much more He spoke as well as wrote for the and conditions of its development, who, “by some . . . are said mu? “ >«« ba™ be«n vitialio" independence of Ireland; and he is a correct scientific method and to be intelligent, cruel and brave; sucb evidence in the past, when wouk, havc d()lle much for that o( by others, weak, kindly and cow- passions ran higher and credulity I Greece, if lie had not died soon after rational antithesis of supernatural “revelation,” Ro-called, for obtain ardly,” we have to deal with an was greater- publishing a magnificent tragedy, ing dispensations of religious in enormous accumulation of conflict in which he showed what cruel formation. By the adoption of ing statements; we cannot but feel massacres were perpetrated while scientific methods in the study of Byron and Shelley. that the task of collecting facts the rulers of Christendom refused to this subject, we may hope to dis from which to draw conclusions is help Christian patriots against the cover and apply principles by BY F R E D E R IC MAY H O LLA N D . in this case a more arduous one Turks. Byron is culled the poet of which religion may be rapidly than in any other case. Passing revolution; but Shelley was the evolved from chaos to kosmoe, over remote illustrations, let us T O writer has spoken more poet of liberty. One was like a from something of doubtful influ- take an immediate one. 1 mightily than Byron against painter who captivated the multi- ence for good to the immaculate Last year advertisements an- the “blasphemy” of ascrib- tude, sometimes by his brilliancy of producer of good only; and the nounced the “Two-headed Nightin- ing divine authority to the “royal color, sometimes by his tragic founding of a system of rational gale,” and the walls of London vampires.” He knew that Napo- pathos, and sometimes by his amor- religious culture is the noblest un- wer© placarded with a figure in leon had been “the scourge of the ous warmth. The other was like a dertaking any one can engage in, which one pair of shoulders was world;” hut he was indignant to sculptor who left a few statues and and its consummation would come shown to bear two heads looking see the men who had struck down tablets, fanciful in design and ma to the human mind like a flood of the same way (I do not refer to the the lion kneeling before wolves; and jestic in execution, for the delight light from the scientific “sun of later placards, which partially dif- yet he looked forward to the reign of connoisseurs. Fortuuately, the righteousness!” All hail the dawn I fered from the earlier). To some everywhere of “equal rights and marble is likely to outlast the can- this descriptive name and answer-, laws.” He spoke freely of the VBS-—[Liberty in the Nineteenth Theologiaus have exhausted in ing diagram seemed sufficiently ex-1 “sacerdotal gain but general loss” Century. genuity in finding excuses for God. W S' A ** V*