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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1900)
T H E TORCH OF REA SO N , S IL V E R T O N , OREGON, S E PT E M B E R 20. E. M. 300 (1900.) syetein were formed by theconden sation of a m ighty hot nebula under a circu lar motion, which threw off , i i • . ’ ” threw ofl the cooled outer c.rcles as p lanets, and they revolviug threw or left behind then, their m oon, Now, urges our friend, w hat began it. Are they going with new J g h t, heal, etc., to form new m at- ie ra to m 8 out of the infinite ether? If our friend would only get seated on one o f thr>.o * -i ° " *a " S’ g t/ fbou ! into “ some decree” i n L i . : . u m ight seem -necessarily tru e.” ' ' 2. But now comes Friend W elt- stein with a sensation article of the New Y ort S unday JournaI( which diamonds . to becuis to be a digest of a lecture of ' ar,,a,s qualities. As genius for music Prof. Serviae, a popular lecturer on I T * ““ : e: u « ; r co8t 8uicide — A Astronom stronom y, and seeks to galvanize v u l v a n i ... rectly d e te rm in e a d iam o n d in all its this scientific “ conjecture” into a n ev e? « I ' 1*’“ 1“ I*"'1 ^ “ r a c t e r i s t i c ¿ n th i6 follow? ie \e r le acq u ired , unless by th e rare tlm U nd' fi8 t T y T h W ° lder’ a “ d t h e , a w o f oorrelation and “ supply scientific “ theory” again. T his is dpalWh° arei glfted in this direction. A » . a° d d — <V - he, on the^sun done on the strength of observa dealer m ay be a good jew eler, a succees- v e t * X ^ - a n t aibl an flenest m an , an d tions m ade by the new telescope at y et deceive you on a d iam o n d , sim ply the sun cannot, is a biological forever , or u n til it catches the the Lick O bservatory. W hat facts b e e n ’In H ‘ln?8e,.f 18 deceived. I have analogy from plants and anim als ' . ¿ ¡ i 1 th e business forty y ears. I star Lyra, which is also on the those observations really disclose, could no m ore lie deceived on a d ia which does not apply at all to the fly, being pulled, pushed or floated, ond th a n th e c a sh ie r of th e R ank of and w hat they are worth on this m universe or to solar systems. It E n g lan d co u ld be on a bank note. W hen and which it m ay overtake and and other subjects, rem ains to be buying d iam o n d s I use no glasses ask does not even ap ply to H u m an ity gradually appropriate by “ benevo n s ex cep t th e p r i c e ,’ m y or its great Peoples; even Prof. lent assim ilation,” a n d ‘ thus com known. We would in nowise try e no s ^ d q if u f estio o 10” ln8.t a n t |y d etects th e s l i g h t D raper wrecked his “ Intellectual to anticipate, much less disparage, st Inference in color ev ery flaw and mence a more wholesale and still perfection. Y our in te re sts will be them . \\ e would respectfully re p m D evelopm ent of E urope” with the ro te c te d !/ you buy of m e. If you w arn grander “ forever.” [See Prof. New quest Mr. D. K. Tenney to give the *KM>ng’ In ’ S t.u d »e tc., for $10, $20, $50 notion th a t because men die, great com b’s article in M cClure’s M aga tru th about them , and their b ea r $100 or u p , send to m e. I will sen d you societies and civilization m ust die. zine for Ju ly , 1899.J o r ttw ^ )<a n iir^PaKL K e®P tb ein a W”ek ings, in an article in the Free- ? n n i ’ .i 1. , you are n o t satisfied th a t too. The fact is, th a t they have As John S tu a rt Mill pointed out, thought M agazine at his early con X o u T m o w W,mPetit0re’ retu™ 8ud (with scarcely an exception) kept if you m ust have hypotheses, there venience, and w e shall wait until growing from, out of and upon Clm ins f° i price ,i8t of W atch es, is no sense in m aking them pessi h 11 I/ e1 w e,ry> S ilverw are, Free- we get the actual tru th from him or each other, pyram id-Jike, up to the m istic, especially against the facts. I rof. Serviss, or some o th er source m ?Uirm-t “ ‘Tr8’- ln«?reol‘ and present tim e, with its F am ily of fie 1 Phei8m ln th e C ru c ib le ,” W e have only to read “ The E a rth Nations. The die idea is absurd, We are quite sure th a t the sober Not Created, th e F allacy of A ll’ except when used to describe the tru th does not appear in th a t sin Cosmic Theories,” by D. K. T en O tto W e tts te in , ceasing of the life-process of some g u lar rhetorical exercitation of the ney (ee„d 15 cents to H. L. Green, microbe p lan t or anim al. The a t Sunday J o u rn a l, which has been R o c h e lle , I I I . editor of the F reethought M aga tem pt to biologize the universe so going the rounds of the papers, zine, Chicago, for it), to see how as to “ introduce d eath ” into it is and which our friend has copied in u tterly prem ature all of these neb SrOpies of 10f sim ply absurd. his letter, thus giving it an im port SAMPLE ÜHR1I L u N ew spapers Hnd different Magazines Loadimr I? ular speculations are, and how any address upon receipt o f 10 cents to ance it iu nowise deserved. I t does V ? « c b s c k ip t io n A « ï n c v PX , Nr Suppose it proved th a t our sun Liberty St, Indianapolis, Ind. ’ ’ 126 N - weak they are as against the “ Mete did condense from a nebula; it may oric” or A ggregative H ypotheses of not disclose any fact clearly, nor still go on forever. W hat had a the great astronom er, Lockyer, and show the intellectual sobriety which conclusion. beginning need not have an end, if his elucidator, Proctor, ¡ n t h - „ i n , b can h draw a scientific conclu8i°" m h e W iley B. the supply equals the loss. It de chapter of hie “ O ther W orlds ” As to 1 1 ” P° W8r aB8€1" 1 Allen Co. pends upon the profit and loss of these eoelestial fancies the A » t - ” - t p ‘“ “ T 8’ BU‘ j " 8t ™ a t T he O ldest ! th e 1 ie ^ a r* gran(Bloquence generally L argest ! M usic the business. Now, under the law onier Roval R n omer Koyal, Ball, uses the word m eans “ n o ra« P ” A „ J i • Store. L ead in g P i , d U 18 of correlation, and the c o rsta n t S p ecu latio n s!” See his “ Storv J anos an d O rgans. 3O 9-aii F irst S t ., falling of m atter into the sun, it is the H eav en s,” pp. 506, etc where I t h i s ^ ’t 1 ’’ ‘ 8 f“ Ct8 ,ndlcated >" PORTLAND. oREU he says of this N ebula H ^ h ” « t o o t o t r “ e’ . ' he N abular plainly not a live coal cooling off ;♦ t n y P °ine , Hypothesis is an im possibility, and dying out in em pty space. It sis- ©is. iMor CHti it be ever more thnn I » r more th an The sta rs are suns, and the rota- is a going on,” a process, in every a sneei, l a t i n o • ii a speculation, it cannot be estnh- ♦ e • . • , sense of the word, and at a most lished by observation, nor can i, be the n l ’ V * t,,8,n L IU S T AS NATURAL . old hen I B and a gwxf deal m on reliable. -- Doesn't A break Ila egira or make IU chick — - — r « ---- -------- ■ — chlcka loner. O° ° ' ‘h “ terrible rate. Its “ go” is really the proved by calculation It is t n e r e h L ‘ r t h D omi . t atay J off the neat and allow the eggs to chill but hatches every egg that can be B e a ta correlation of im pinging m atter a conjecture, more or less n l a u s i i J J hyp dhesls ln order to account for hatched. THE ’em b u tn e rh a n s in ,1. 1 - 1‘he form ation of planets and solar • I I . , . • » l u m i a i i o n o i p ia n e l and forces which keeps it in as , - PETALUMA INCUBATOR »arilver, ' ap8-rn 8ome d t ? ree " eces system s. B ut here we tonishing ebulition, and drives it have “ vast la t lo n and v e n tila In tio the n . V. For ANYWHERE 8. 60 H a to L d SM > o ra X c S k iX £f ? ^ , ~ ,rUe’ 1 f,Ur p,eseüt ,aWR of ; spirals, in tricate p attern s o f nebu- FREIGHT V c t a l u » . In c u b a to r Cu . B a a . P e« a î 2 ! ï < £ ? and its system through space at th e rate of ten miles a second, i e m it ’ o i 'th e U'èxîr"la " d a d ' lous " ’aceries, as delicate in struc- 300 m illions of miles a a ve ? b re r L i r e d and H t T H “ year nere required, and if the present with sta rs.” Then the “ rings of tow ards the star L yra. The sun fieieT t“ 88 . r e ,g “ ed f' ,r 8Uf’ i lig l't a r e «» teblinked ;” “ orbs of has not a secoud of tim e to ston 0 0 W orth o f heient time w ithout the interven- ’ ~ pale fire whose gigantic w hirling and get cool, and ,t never will I tion of any influence at present un- motion and whose gradual com have until those im pelling forces 1 known to us.” FREE ! are shut off, and who is to I “ Such a speculation may capti- paction into new suns under the “ f S ecular S cience and pressure of g rav itatio n are all but do th a t, or tell how it C ommon S ense ” point» is to vate the im agination, but it must visible.” the way to the (foal of be done? y.otir am b ition . A maty a. ep. . , carefully distinguished from the of Advanced How can “ vast sp irals” and M , .. , zine -----«.ur». ana Free 1 he universe hasendless resources, tru th s of Astronom y, properly so i£ 5 !,” a N a n S , l S * ‘•nebulous tracerm ,,” “ bearded with W hat reason have we to suppose called.” P. 509 th a t the supply of coarse m atter This seems the heailhy position atar«” and “ in terlin k e.l,” th a t is, > [its c o a lj to the sun will ever give to take; aud certainly so, after chained together, “ rings of lig h t” of Ue'« n L L e i i PPin<r,tOne to “«ccess in a ll in t e ii^ ‘» ,.^ dertak1" *8’ « it develop« power o ï I * r<*P<««n »o that latent and active out, or th a t the consequent corre- reading Mr. Tenney’s showing th a t revolve so as to work nut the ¿«L?1 h® Pr°Pe r ,T directed, in su rin g a ate ra< latiou of light, heat, elec- this speculation gets not a particle N ebular H ypothesis? The beads, £,ey bead in a sound body. N oth in g lik e it or tn c ity , nebula, etc., from the sun of encouragem ent from the vast th at is, the stars, are suns already formed in a vast mass of continu wi ever cease, or th a t its two mo- num ber of nebulae revealed by tele- Send at once a s th is offer is lim ited. S am ole with an in terestin g book of over 1Û0 p a ~ s tions, or those of its planets, will scopes—no such “going on” being ous nebulous “ tracery.” This po copy free for 12 cents in stam p s. A ddress 8 sition u tterly negatives the idea of ever be arrested, or even vary sous really detected, in any of its phases, their rotation as a whole. But if SECULAR SCIBNCE AND COMMON SENSE not to soon balance again, as La in any p a it of the known universe. P.E. 532 Allas Bik, Chicago, III, Place proved they would under the This speculation was, therefore, each su n -star rotates with its part law of g rav itatio n ? The evidence healthfully dropping out of the of the nebula, the nebula would be all broken up and not co n tin u o u s., is clear th at the sun is doing a school books, where it had done w ork—except , . . . ' I his c evidently *«uenuy wont woi large, safe and attractive unspeakable injury as a “ Scientific to make a a.,hi; . T hu’ k„ s o , a h h u u g Î B rv a , r , ü • m e » “ ’ «U b l 1 m e d lr tO S . UB1,,De iness. No sooner do the e com e.. Theory.” T The ablest publication of the kind in the World nds their dexes it as a “ T heory,” he treats it Wllh a . ¡ M n f ’ .• f paie h re’ Si«ty-fOur Pa<e8. i get up to it, th an it sends Illustrated. Published Monthly. Notice in his book « m « o " g 'g a n t l C w h i r l i n g m o t i o n , ” Price B t . oo a year. 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