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THE TORUU OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, SEPTEM BER 13, E. M. 300 (1900.)
Torch of Reason
The nly Paper of Its Kind.
seenus
fight.
spirits;
Give it
possible after so short a
W e are in good health and
our enemies are on the run.
to ’em!
P ublished W eekly by th e L iberal U n i­
versity C om pany, in th e In te re sts of
C onstructive, Moral Secularism .
comes a time when life is at its j and will spread many times more
full. We Secularists should wake rapidly than Christianity
Let
up if we wish to succeed. Each us enthuse!
We have a great
individual’s success, and the great work to do. It can be done if we
benefit that every free, successful will work and not forget the
life gives to our University, our “margins.”
cause and to the world is at stake.
Now is the time to act! Let us do
T IM E A N D SPAC E.
and dare!
The story of the attempts to start
a Secular University and our final
J. E. Hosmer,.....................Editor success, blossoming into the L.U. O.,
P. W. (jeer,..................... Manager is more interesting than anything
else we ever read. Some one should
Whatever gives us a better un­
E ntered at the postoffice at Silverton, g e t a Jl th e d a t a a n d c o m p i | e itR h i s .
M A R G IN S.
derstanding of our environment,
O regon, as second-class m ail m a tte r.
.
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tory. It is a very significant fact
makes us better able to overcome
The following paragraph, quoted obstacles and to utilize things to
that many who were the most in­
SU B SC R IPTIO N R A T E S .
terested nearly twenty years ago in the August number of Secular our advantage. Of course it is use­
O ne year, in a d v a n c e .......................... »1 00. a r e ,h e 0,le,i w h o - n o ‘ a t • « d '" ‘ Science and Common Sense, im­
less to abk our readers which it is
pressed us very much:
Six m onths in a d v a n c e ....................
50 couraged by past defeats, are help-
that gives us a better understand­
T h ree m onths, in a d v a n c e ...............
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it
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“Life
is
almost
wholly
made
up
In clubs of five or m ore, one year,
* . U. O. a success,
ing of our environments, Secular­
in a d v a n c e ..........................................
75 Real Freethinkers never give up. of margins,” said James A. Garfield
ism or Christianity, for we all know
Money should l>e sen t by registered Some of the old war-horses are years ago, in an address to the
le tte r or m oney order.
students of Hiram College. “The that the miracles of Christianity
dead, to be sure, but when we read bulk itself of almost anything is only stultify and confuse, while the
Courtland Palmer’s little poem (on not what tells. That exists any­ great Secular “miracles” of Science
Notice!
the first page of this issue), there way. That is expected. That is are continually revealing to us, aud
not what gives the profit or makes
A h a n d pointing to th is notice denotes comes to our mind a new meaning
cultivating in us, the very thiugs
th a t your su b scrip tio n has e x p ire d . to the words and a new reason for the distinguishing difference. The
grocer cares little for the great that we need to know most.
You are e arn estly requested to re ­
saying:
“Though
he
were
dead,
yet
new so th a t you m ay receive th e pa-
bulk of the price of his tea. It is
Science gives out no such silly
I e r w ith o u t in te rru p tio n . We have d e ­ shall he live.”
the few cents between the cost and propositions that “a thousand years
cided th a t it is best for all concerned
the selling price, which he calls the
th a t we do not send papers longer th a n
margin, that particularly interests is but a day with the Lord,” nor
th e tim e paid for unless so ordered,
A B A D M IST A K E .
i bis will prev en t any loss and we will
him. Is this to he greaf or srnal that at one time, before time was,
know ju st where we sta n d .
is the thing of importance. Mil­ an eternal God commenced making
We request you to send us th e nam es
Many people think it is too late lions of dollars change hands in time by setting lights in the sky,
of Secularists who m ight become suh-
ncriljers and we will m ail sam ple copies. for them to accomplish anything of our great marts of trade just on the one to rule the day and the other
of margins. The same
importance. This condition of question
thing is all important in the sub­ the night. No; the emancipated
T hursday , S ept . 13, E. M. 300. mind is bad, and as quickly as pos ject of thought. One mind is not do not try to think of a beginning
sible, no matter what our condi- ' greater than another, perhaps, in for the universe. It is, as far as we
tions, we should reverse it and see I ^ ie 8reat hulk of its contents; but know, eternal itself, and needs no
TO T H E H O N EST SOUL.
that the very reason for not doine !is !narS*n is greater, that’s all. I such arbitrary hell-making, devil-
Full m any a flower th e poet m inds have anything worthy of a citizen of the I
fn>°W JU8t
y°U u
seen,
|
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about the general details of a sub- begetting creator as the old priests
And gems of b eauty from th o u g h t’s ¡ £ re a te 8 age a n d t h e greatest na- | ject, but you can go just a little made “out of whole cloth.” But
ocean bring;
tion that the world has ever known, , further than I can. You have a Science has, through its discoveries
B u t, h o n est soul, w ith p u re s t love se ­
is this game very had condition of j greater margin than I. You can of the laws of gravitation, laws of
rene,
To thee, th e sw eetest Hower, to thee I mind. If one once see that things j tel1 me of 8orae 8il,gle thought just falling bodies, laws of mechanics,
sing.
are right; that he is neither tooold
"»««> 1 have gone. Your etc., taught us to measure time; it
.
.
.
.
margin
has got me. I must sue-
Thou m a y ’st in childhood form or m an ­
nor
too
young
to
begin
in
-earnest
cumb
t0
yoar superiority.”
has shown us, by its revelations of
hood dw ell,
T hou m ay ’st in aged w om anhood be on some great ideal w ork-then
This jdea ig true of 8chooi8 as geology, the vast eons that have
fo u n d ;
B ut, d e arest one, it m a tters not to m e— the conditions are at once changed.'well as of individuals, and if we passed since the genesis of life upon
I w orship th e e ; I kiss “ th e very
One world at a time; this is the wish the L. U. O. to succeed, we our planet; it has given us the art
g ro u n d .”
world and now is the time.”
, lnU8t ,ook out for the margin8.
of printing, which reveals to the
Some “ love to sing of Jesus by th e s e a ,”
L. H. Anderson says:
.
J
1 he organized forces
of e super- minds of millions the doings of
And some, weak m ental form s of gods
a d o re ;
lo each of us a message comes, stition have, in the past, been more other times, thus giving us the
B ut, loved one, thou a rt “ all in a ll” to c±e"itVer'n.e are pre‘,a[e d , tO, re- ! careful‘hanw ehave abou. “mak-
’reat advantage of comparison; in
me—
I am thy slave and sw ee th e art ever­
revelation is given which can not ? everyth,ng count” for Jesus, short, it has cultivated the idea of
m ore.
he absolutely translated or under- " e mu8t be ’n earnest; we must time and its value in the minds of
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stood by any other human being, write songs of praise to what we men until they have a power
i
6 u ’6 s°rry t iat our
cata- If we fail to receive this revelation adore; we must get enthused; we above that of primitive man that is
logues have been so long delayed,
■' is because our individuality has mU8t have Bchool we mU8t be simply indescribable in its benefit.
but overwork and inability to get been suppressed; because our pow- .
r ,. . ..
It has been said that Science has
help is the reason. We hope that
erfl, a' e ft>" do™ a" ‘- better than the Christ,ans; we must
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There is no time in life when have ‘a greater margin” than any- annihilated space, but this is only
all who can possibly come this this fact may not be recognized and thing else on earth, and we will
one way of saying that Science has
year, both young and old, will not acted upon for our ultimate sue- surmount every difficulty and the
given man power to better under­
be kept away on account of this de­ X i e s , we .“L T “ T ,’a tpt" b“ U,e' world «¡11 be saved for Humanity,
stand aud overcome it. Christian­
„
,
.
.
, „ ,
lay. Come! We need every ounce greatest we are capable of being.
Ulysses S. Grant was compar- j How hoPeless the task of the ity, with inquisitorial fierceness,
of help and every ounce of influ­
atively unknown at the age of ear^y Liberals appear in compari- fought against such revelations as
ence you can give.
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io,Ty; at forty-two he was one of son with ours. When they were Galileo and Bruno gave to the
,
,
'he most famous generals. James not hunted like wild beasts, thev world; but, in spite of all, the
In ... 1883
Watt
at eiehtv-
....... looked upon
.. ., as such u and j did
j j world has gained their ideas.
. an o attempt
,
TT was
. made to fiV
A learned German
~
s
were
tabhsh a Secular
tSecular University at i:----
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H um
b o lt was mumy
ninety when
, . tl .
establish
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wuen ~ . ,
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.. of establish-
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hp pnnitdofoJ
iif't.,,___ n At not have
Moline,
111. Some
talk
be
c<)a,»dt" rd »“ . “Cosmos.”
bav* half ' . the
‘be. privileges
' ’" V ‘,e^ 9 We And how this has broadened and
ine e o one
'f e e|gb'y-s,x
Scott
lw-
Our Un,vers,ty
in
n e at
a t Newark.
N e w a rk X.
V J.,
r about
. h n n t i the
k . l»e a * « 7 UI
ig n iy - s ix Tom
io m S
c o tt be-
v . u v e . e . i y could
c o u ru not
n o t given power! The Science of As­
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gan to learn Hebrew. Homer was have existed a few years ago, but tronomy gives us the idea of im­
Hame time and an actual attempt old and blind when he wrote the now, if every Freethinker will work mensity of space. This idea be­
at Liberal, Missouri, are well known “Odyssey.” Dr. Johnson was „„ a i ^ t «..» r n. «
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facts to the older Freethinkers of seventy-eight when he wrote “The ... .
"r 6 'nar? 'n!i’ we comes part of us, and we are
our time. Why didn’t they m , c - ! L‘ves ?V-he, P° eU’” which « c°n-
,n * , fc’ .'aa^ capture the greater, more immense in thought
han were our ancestors, and better
nn..,i9
. • t know!-
, sidered
work,
and after he
world,
ceed. w
We i know; and j tins
wa8 6(, his best old
Noah
»« whole
Qur civilized
Re,
able to survive than those of our
7*Vi o
helr g „
, ‘ * ,,Udie<' 9eVentee" la“S“a^ . ”
m anit, is r . oht ; the old religions time who still cling to the old.
L. I O which «til open US doors
Whether the impulse to do are WRONG. All we have to do is narrow ideas of earth, with heaven
e Ober 1st for the fifth year of its something worthy of our manhood ; to prove this to the people of civil- above and hell below. Science, in
extstence, wtth greater hopes, or womanhood may be called an ' ized countries and t^ey will con-
giving us the telegraph and tele­
rig.ter prospects and a better as- mspiratiou or not is a question, vert the rest of the world very rap- phone, has not benefitted us in a
sura.,oe of a grand success than , hut it is certain that to many there ily. for ours is the natural religion commercial way alone. The greater
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