THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, AUGUST 30, E. M. 300 (1900.) 7 accepted by all. Words are the L ib ra ry o f L ib e ra l-C la s s ic s . pabulum of the mind—food that ’ The Hon. T. G. Geary of Cali- enable8 it to digest thoughts. Sci- Fac-simile of the Cloth Edition, of Fac-simile of the Illuminated Paper the Famoua • Covers of Ae • fornia said in a speech made in the euce reQuirti8 a knowledge of words House of Representatives, as re­ in her followers. It is not well for library of library of ported by the Evening Star of the heathen to learn the English of Washington, D. C.: “I will vote for the Bible, because that is not what LIBERAL CLASSICS. LIBERAL CLASSICS a bill requiring American mission­ it means. There is a “different ■ -. aries in China to return to this signification,’ the different denom­ • • a country within a year. I would do inations teaching a different “signi­ this just as I would vote to expel fication,” or spiritual meaning. * 5** Prof. F. Guthrie says, “Japan every anarchist from the U. S. within a year. Thesy cases are ex­ takes our Science at ouce and as a whole, for it finds in Science the actly parallel.” The God of the Bible in Ex. one universal language—the lan­ xxii., 28, says, “Thou shalt not re­ guage of Nature herself. In a couple of hundred years floods of vile the Gods.” The various denominations, Bap­ scientific truth will be poured upon tists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, the Western world from China and Methodists, Congregationalists and Japan, unless these countries fall P A P E R E D IT IO N C L O T H E D IT IO N S . Paine’s Age o f R e a so n ............ „.......... Mormons, send out their mission­ victims to some so-caiied higher _ p a i n l ’ s C o m p l e t e V o r k i Paine's Common Sense..... Paine s Poli ical Works. 2 vol 10 Fines» aries to revile the gods of other na­ civilization in the way as Peru and Paine’s Paine’s Rights o f M an....... Theological Works 1 vol.’ «0 Glue »rated Maine’s Crisis Paine’s M iscellaneous Works. 1 vol « Edition, tions, while the superstition they Mexico.” Paine’s Religious * Theological Works. Ilia BO Paine’s Life. By Clio Rickman DlM CCd. Paine’s Principal Political Works. Ulus...... _ OD and the editor o f The Nation­ All nations will accept the teach­ al. go to teach has it roots in the ® Profusely illustrated. 1vol. 6 vol. 06.00 -»aine’s Life. Profhsely illustrated................ Paine’s Age o f R eason............................... /o ln e y ’s Ruins o f Empires. Illustrated. .. 00 N ings which led to the harmonious superstition they go to combat. Paine’s Rights o f Man..................... ™ lousseau’s Vicar o f Savoy, and A Search for * Truth, by Olive Schreiner.......................... Paine’s C n s is ........................................ «9 5C lousseau's Social Contract............................... Presbyterians, exhorting their working with the laws of Nature, Paine’s Life, by ed National. Profusely iilus 70 OD deslier’s Superstition in all Ages. Portrait 0D Complete Life, by Clio Rickmaa and Sunday school scholars to be inter which, as Prof. Guthrie says, “be­ Paine’s the editor o f the National , 00 W e01ier'0 w ln itb r nub tUrrniittff. Portrait 00 Oickens’ Sunday Under Three H eads. Illua. 10 Bulwer’s History o f a False Religion. Illus. ested in missionaries, teach them to long alike to all nations.” s Talleyrand’s Letter to the Pope. P ortrait.. There are no laws in the universe sing: 10 rruv , vn n su an ity. Ulus........ a 00 Tibbon's Birth and Character o f Mahomet... G ibbous Birth and Character o f M ahom et. 00 Riggins’ Hor® S ab b atic® ................................. « but the laws of the universe, by Riggins’ Apology for M ahomet, the Illua. 10 Far, tar away, in heathen darkness Reasons for Unbelief. By Louis V iardot...... « which life can be made more dwelling, Father Tom and the Pope at the Vatican....... Millions of souls may be forever lost. healthy, purer, more happy, more Did ever a warm-hearted, think­ holy and more worth living, so ing child ask why these millions of that we need not look to some in­ souls should be forever lost? Mill­ dividual power somewhere in space, ions of years have passed over and to the far, far off’ resurrection these hea then. Is the loving Father day theologians dream of, for the of the theologians still sending joy that might be ours now and Romances. Illustrated................... i jjo these souls to hell because they do here, if only Humanity received Voltaire's ------- Essays and Criticisms. Profusely iilus. 1 60 Rousseau’s Vicar o f Savoy. Portrait. Cloth 60 Voltaire’s Zadig, or F a te : and The W hite not know Him as the theologians the worship now given to man's Rousseau’s Bull, a Satirical Rom ance............... Social Contract. Portrait............ 7# ------- The Sage and the A theist; also The Meslier’s Superstition in all Ages. Portrait. 1 00 do? Princes8of Babylon............................ erroneous conception of Creative W icftlier’* ({Maiibr nub m in ift. Portrait 1 00 10 ------- The Man o f Forty C row ns: and The Volney’s Ruins o f Empires. Illustrated..... 76 Huron, or, Pupil o f Nature............ “England in her Indian domains Power, whose origin, shape, form, Volney’s New Researches in Ancient History 1 60 » ------- Micromegas; The World as it (Joes ; Reade’s (Winwood) Martyrdom o f Man ...... l 00 has made discoveries, the result of condition and designs man most Haeckel’s Visit to Ceylon. Portrait............. i OC • Plato’s Dream ; Jeannot A Colin, etc. 10 Voltaire’s Romances, containing the above« Sunday Under Three Heads. Ulus. SO which is likely to be the infliction likely will never be able to appre­ H Dickens’ books in one vol. Profusely illustrated.01 00 iggins’ Hor® Sabbuticse.......................... 60 Letters on the Christian R eligion...... 36 H iggins’ Apology for Mahomet, the Iilus. 60 of restraints to prevent the Mo­ hend. All that is open to us is the Buchner’s ’ ......................... 30 Force and Matter. Portrait . 1 00 ............. - .......... A «6 Buchner’s Man in Past, Present and Future. 1 00 hammedans from hurting the re­ divinity in humanity, not in kings Rochefoucauld’s Moral M axims...................... 75 Voltaire’s Essays and Criticisms contains the b li^ ^ P ortrait.. 1 “ I - above 4 books, profusely illustrated . ...7 1 00 ligious feelings of the Hindoos.”— and emperors, and the immutable, Â Î ^ irV ^ c^ tic^ ^ erm nt 00 Renan’s Life o f Jesus. Ulustrated .............. 00 Anatomy o f o f Ne i S ! tic o n ......................... 76 Schopenhauer’s Wisdom o f Life. Portrait... 10 Philosophy From “The Cyclopedic Review of changeless laws that are the soul S Saltus’ altu s*----- en ch an tm en t........ 78 ----- —Counsels and M axim s............................... >0 Faw cett’s Agnns ostic icism . T6 --------R eligion: a Dialogue A Other Essays Current History.” of the universe. 10 Bui wer’s History o f a False Religion .......... 60 ------- The Art o f Literature............................... 00 Talleyrand’s Letter to the Pope. Portrait.. 6« Studies in Pessimism Why should the worshippers cf “Materialism” is the charge Reasons for Unbelief. By Ix uis Viardot...... 6C Gabrielle’s and Imm ortality o f M an..... 00 Father Tom and the Pope at the Vatican...... 60 Davidson’s Life Canon o f the Bible......................... 60 the Israelitisb God be allowed to brought against Science, but what Ingersoll’s Lectures, vol. . 1 I, cloth.................... 3 60 >. v. - - ; i Darwin’s Origin o f Species............................... 60 Sheep........... ? 06 Hypatia. By Charles K ingsley......................... 00 hurt the religious feelings of other can be more spiritual than the vi­ ------------- “ vol. rol. I, i ’‘ tUlu halt morocco.... 6 0C Bacon’s Paradoxes. P o r tra it........................... 10 IngersoU’? ] S 7 w X ’” l^ r tr a R i’On’) ISC The Sctentiflc Relirfon By M^niei Rands.'.: 00 nations? tality of the universe and its "_______ .i8* I ortrait ......... t sc Ingersoll’s Controversy iv A A Christmas Sermon 10 Cheaper Edition.. 1 50 ’ ~ and otner L ectures................ Gods 00 It would not do to send mission­ breathings? The universe lives by ---------------- ------------- Gods and other Lectures.............. 1 00 Ghosts and other Lectures............... 00 Ghosts and other Lectures.......... 1 00 Some Mistakes o f Mosee................... 30 aries to the Esquimaux and tell its own omnipotent laws, outside of Some Mistakes o f Moses ............. l ot Interviews on Talmage. 00 Interviews on Talm age................ l OC What Must we do to be Saved 7. 36 them that their Creator said (Lev. which there is no omnipotence.— Field-Ingersoll Discussion........... 60 Blasphem y............. ............. ................ 36 Ingersoll-Gladstone Controversy 60 • Man, Woman and Child. Portrait. 10 xi., 10), “And all that have not fins [The Bible God, Bible Teachings --------------- The Christinn R eligion ................. 6C - Shakespeare, a Lecture. 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