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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1900)
T H E TORCH OF REASON, S IL V E R T O N , OREGON, AUGUST 23, E, M. 300 (1900) 3 id en tity of result, and if they do before the cause— the carl before chem ical com bination. If they were T h at we must stop p rin tin g for not, ‘‘of course there is no identity the horse. N othing i s ‘'created ” in like it they could uot cause or m ake want of space. As we w rite one of 'i n the elem ents’” Mr. Eccles is the old sense of th a t word, but sen- it. There is no wetness in hydro- our friends has sent us 10,000 more here saying the sam e things we tiency is the result of chem ical pro- gen or oxygen; if there was they spook words, and the Torch of R ea said. For instance, in M ars a kind c h e s , ju st as plainly as the lig h t would not m ake water, H 2 O, by !son is likely to he extinguished by of red protoplasm may be produced, of a lam p; to keep on saying th a t com bining; and when they are un- the cloudy m ultitude of these hut it will be by some ingredient the light is "a factor” of the flame combined by electrosys they re- goblins. N o, yon cannot help us in correlating th at result. W hen our th a t produces it, is now too absurd appear and the water disappears, th a t way in this world. Let th is chem ists get to m aking their pro for talk . L et us have no more of The wetness is a resu ltan t but not be our bargain: If you will tu rn iu toplasm ic com binations, they, by this “ headache w ithout a h ead,” or a fa tte r of either process. Senti- and help, and co-operate with us in use of homologous isomerism, may m ind w ithout a brain to th in k . As ency is the re su lta n t of the com- our work to m ake a betterm en t of produce better protein than N ature to the various hypothesis about hilling C. H. O. N. P, S., and comes this world, when we do meet you in has done for our food or even for “ atom s,” “e th e r,” and the correlates and goes with it. N othing iu now any other world, we will do our generative purposesl Then Auguste back of the “ elem ents” of m atter, more unscientific or absurd than best to m ake th a t world as much C om te’s U topia of “ Virgin M others” we hope to learn more; but they the old m echanical idea th a t in better as you have m ade this, and m ay no longer be a dream . We are irrev elan t here, because the chem istry the resultants m ust con help you to enjoy it more, even shall doubtless have im provem ents certain thing is, th a t no fu rth er tain the properties of th eir cor re- by hearing you say, “ I told you sol” in protoplasm , but they will all be tru th we m ay learn will ever upset lates. J u s t the reverse is the tru th Now, if you actually believe in the results of scientific progress the tru th we have. The facts and Because sentiency is the result of both worlds, this is a squ are b ar and of the law of “ correlation,” laws of Science are only conformed the com bining and assim ilating gain, and your duty? If you do not th a t is, of like elem ents under like by fu rth er discoveries. “ T ruth can Bioplasm, we know th a t it cannot accept, when we do meet you “ ou conditions. The varying forms of never be confirmed enough, though be in any of its elem ents, or in any the other side,” you will have af the elem ents of C. H. O. N. P. S. doubt did ever sleep,” as S h ak e atom s or molecules of its elements. forded us a strong tem p tatio n to will give the v a ria n t modes of life, speare says, because, as L ucretius The elem ents and results in chem toss the ugliest devil an ex tra tip or Science will cease to be, and says, “ T ru th heart, th e torch in the istry are alw ays d iffe re n t though to give you an extra roasting; and Chaos, which never was, will h a v e 1 search for tru th .” B ut the m an the same elem ents under the sam e d o n ’t you dream th a t you are go come. who discredits what we do know, conditions alw ays yield the sam e ing to get out of th a t P urgatory C. We did not say th a t “ su lp h u r because we m ay know more, should results. “ N othing can be evolved until you have well paid for every was an indispensable condition o f have waited till then before he was th a t is not involved,” hut, rem em sin of omission to L. U. O. while life.” T h at substance is one of the borne. We may become m illion ber! nothing is ever evolved except you were here “ in the flesh” and elem ents in the n a tu ra l composition aire?, hut until then let us put the as a correlate entirely different could help. t . b . w. of protoplasm as we now find it; dollars we can earn to the best from its involved an teced en t ele but our chem ists m ay im prove on possible use in the only world where ments. Wo b elieve th a t c a rd s lik e th e fo llo w in g copy, nature, arid find th a t some other they are current. G. “ Physics cannot explain the neatly p rin te d a n d d istrib u te d all over th e U nit State«, w ill help uh to b u ild th e L iberal U ni of the “ interm ediate elem ents” m ay E. The quotation from Prof. whole of things, and when we try ed versity . H eader, how m any can you d is trib u te to advantage? 1 his will cost you n o th in g b u t take its place, and produce a better T yndall conflicts with nothing we to think how* m ind becomes a a good little effort, and may help th e cause of tr e e - sentiency. But all such experi have said. C ertainly “ we are lim cause, we get beyond our d ep th .” th o u g h t very m uch m ents and results will be under the ited by our powers of observation” This sentence co n tain s the devil of ...F IV E ... REASONS W H Y said universal law of equivalent “ as to the line between the con this whole unprotoplasm ic sen ti YOU correlation. It m ay be th a t each of scious and the unconscious.” By ency, nonsense. It is, in a word, the other elem ents of our living th a t observation, th a t line is clearly a sj. iritist paralysis of hum an en- substance m ay be replaced by ho- draw n between the organic or pro neavor in this world, caused by 8 ho uld H e lp t o B u il d m ologousequivalents, and with bet toplasm ic, and the inorganic or dream ing over another, and work ter results. The Scientist does not unprotoplasm ic world. As Judge ing and paying and trying to live ^ .L ib e r a l U n iversity AT SILVERTON, OREGON lim it his own future much less th a t W aite repeats from us: “ Inorganic in and for th a t, instead of this. Of of N ature; but the thing he is sure m atter is active, but not living or course, Physics can never explain 1 I t will h e lp m any young m en and of is th a t her laws are invariable, sentient in any common sense of “ the whole of things.” We would young wom en to a h ig h er ed u catio n who and th a t 1 equals 1 the world ovei, the woro; b u t organic m atter, i. e., have nothing to live for if it could. o therw ise will grow up w ith o u t its g reat and through all time. protoplasm , is not only active but Therefore, we rejoice th a t the U ui- ad v an tag es. 2 I t will ed u cate w orkers for th e g re a t D. “ C alling protoplasm the first living, and in its higher forms sen verse is infinite. We never expect forw ard m arch of F re e th o u g h t a n d P ro form of life does not m ake it so.” tient. This is the Scientific line of to sweep out our eternal workshop. gress. • 3 I t will forever silence th e accu satio n C ertain ly it does, u n til you show a distinction, based on the funda- But th a t ju s t rem inds us th a t there th a t S ecu larists have never done a n y prior form, which no one pretends m ental law of correlation— the hot- is no end to th e work to be done, th in g . 4 It will h asten th e tim e w hen Reason to do. Until th a t is done it stands tom law of all Science— and not a and th a t our wills ( a s Prof. H uxley and Love will reign, an d w hen s u p e rs ti ap ro x im ately th u s: C54, H7, 021, single exception has been found; said it) are a factor in the nrogress tion and h a te will lie forever gone. 7 , , . r ° o 5 x It l will win give you an o p p o rtu n lty ity n to N16, P S2 equals 100. Of course, and we know by th a t very law th a t of events. In fact, they are the build yourself and o th ers a m o n u m e n t, Be you ye t Bve, th a t will do a m illion chem ically speaking, nothing is no exception ever can he until twice “card in al hinge” in the turn in g of _ _ . 6 tim es m ore good th a n th e m ost costly first, besause ev ery thing has its two equals five. It is not we, but the unconscious into the conscious, one of cold, senseless m arb le. antecedent correlates aforesaid, but Science, and its laws and m ethods sentient,hum an w orld—the Heaven th a t is not w hat we are here talk in g which say to our ghostly friends: of the F u tu re, the “ E a rth ly Para-1 | f a „ h e i p a l i t t l e , w e c a n a c - about. The first form of our life is “Show us some unprotoplasm ic sen- dise.” e o m p lis h m u c h . W i l l y o u h e lp its sim plest form of Bioplasm , or tiency, or cease horhering us and No! We are not “ beyond our a l i t t l e ? Chonps, or P ro tein ; th a t was also doing nothing yourselves: there is depth when we try to think how Six Tracts to Promote the earliest form of all life if it ever a call for facts— and silence be- our m ind becomes a cause.” On had a beginning. When “ th a t comes their absence. the co n trary , we touch bottom F. “ E ith er all m atter is sentient every time when we do a good or evolved stru c tu re ” began to exist its activities were sentiency and or no m atter is sentient, for the useful act; and we stand on the In Place of C h ris tia n ity : life. “ Sentiency was not an in d is evidence accum ulates th a t m atter eternal law and bottom of things 1 Can Sins be Forgiven? pensable factor” in producing life, is at bottom one, and the so-called when we thus try to lift the com ing 2 Decs Christianity or Science Promote Civil- generation into th at H eaven, as we t ^za^on\ but an inevitable concom itant re elem ents are evolved products.” W hat a juggle of words is here! are trv in g to do at our L. U. O. 'i !? ^ e^ ion or Science More Reliable? sult. I t did not exist before the vital com bination com m enced, but U hen a atone hits your head is it We do know th a t ‘our m inds are ¡5 Does Belief in Miracles Benefit? was a p art and incident of the com as sentient as the head, or in any the cause,” and the only caus^, 8 Immortality or Annihilation? bining process of its said correla such sense at a .l. Vet both are which can guide evolution to th a t JU ST T H E T H IN G tives. W hen the life process stops MATTER. W hat we do know is, and , P aradise of E a rth . to hand to y o u r Christian friends. Send Now, you sensible, as well as - cents for 8, or 6 cents for 25 tracts, th a t incident of sentiency ceases. this tru th is constantly ignored by ‘‘’lyn.’ G,»,'.'.’’."! “ n.i W ho kuows not th a t? Show us spookists, th a t no correlate can I»- “ s e n tie n t” S piritualists! we w ant for 50, e ith e r kind or a s some life or sentiency before or in like any of its elem ents, nor can yonr active help in this work in so rted k in d s, to dependent of th a t process! There they singly,or together uncom hined, this world now —and not in the R A L U N IV E R S IT Y is no sense now in p u ttiug the effect be the same as the result of their shape of unscientific spook talk. , T H E L IB E Silverton, Oregon. Scientific Wisdom