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
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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.”
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Suppose it proved th a t our sun
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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
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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
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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
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plainly not a live coal cooling off
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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
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is a going on,” a process, in every a sneei, l a t i n o • ii
a speculation, it cannot be estnh- ♦
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sense of the word, and at a most lished by observation, nor can i, be
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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.
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»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
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ANYWHERE
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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
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year nere required, and if the present with sta rs.” Then the “ rings of
tow ards the star L yra. The sun
fieieT t“
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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
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heient time w ithout the interven-
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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.”
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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.
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carefully distinguished from the
of Advanced
How can “ vast sp irals” and M ,
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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
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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
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*«uenuy wont woi
large, safe and attractive
unspeakable
injury
as
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to
make
a
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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 ’ .•
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