THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, SEPfE>IÜER 2lJ> E y 3QJ (
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I t was a sim ilar Morn, .h a t on
Aug.
1893,
ravaged the
the coasts
coasts
n u g . 27, lo
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of L ouisiana, F lo rid a, Georgia and
S outh C arolina, being most severe
w e « W t e r S ‘a te ,W h e re l’"()01iTe9
land
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with the . awful
accounts of cyclones,
blizzards, lightning, w ater spouts
and earth q u ak es. W hy not live
where one can go to bed at night
w ithout fear of flood, wind or
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,
* re p re s e n t. Haeckel has intim ated in his me th a t idea ho'da h a r d ” Tl
'• ^ v i s s , is clear to U
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from “ W
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get hold
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of ether to m atter a n d « ,1 8 , have been 1 ulck to
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y ° rk Jo u rn al last fall, in which acquire a new notion of it. ¿ ’i
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illu f,ra le s P rof Newcomb’s and form ations, attractio n s and r e n u ’ d 8en‘" Den‘- which th «J k »<” »
,h e Lick t8l— pe discoveries by sions. This’, he sav a Ja th e ' ro h i™
m i " k in d ’ W he”
> discoveries by sions. T his, he say ., i . th e problem h
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“ an u interesting diagram of the for the next
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hypothesis was put out a century
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U ICP'y io i\apoieon's
star forms and m otions m ust oupHLinn u-iiv »n
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it with Lyra. He shows how our w ait till the., ..... . . . . . . . . . <Iue8t'ol‘. *hy the nam e of God ap-
perhapa‘ forever’ h '
sun m ay become a happy member
of th a t constellation, or pass on to im m ensity of these aubiLds the IeP° r ‘ed ‘° **’ “ Be's »ua<‘.
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Other “ universes- in the infinity of N ebular H ypothesis is“ S
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“ U' al h ™ <>lhe8‘8 ”
lightning.
W E would be very space beyond. All of which does childish fancy; a refiexion n’t ^ h e ? " ’ i™’’ '' h“ 8 llone a8 m ucl‘ »"
m uch
pleased to
have
all not at all com port with the cool- doum a nf <«• m inn
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I an y th in g to m ake him im m ortal,
our readers learn the rem edy for down and die-out idea of our em cycles a u d i o s ,
ju8lly- B ut wl|en the Theo-
such awful catastrophes.
W ould frien d ’s N ebular H ypothesis
No s'uu s t a r
I 7 8 ,',ui,dle8s- 1°«» were driven out of th eir old
we he wise to build the L. U. O. in
Let us try to im acine a
L V .““ 1 , 7 %
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— ‘ ¡creation story ano sub stituted
Let us try to im agine a “ haze works itself
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• »u creat,on 8tory ar>a substituted
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sitselt.
Every
m
otion
is
for J day 8, and j evolution
, • as
such a storm region?
Then why sprinkled
>nnkled with
with stars,
stars, channeled
channeled result
of a a m
m ighty
b h tv equivalent
„ „ « ¡v .i..,,, cor-
. the
.. . . “enoehK
,epoch® ” for
result of
should an y one build a home there? with d ark , w inding gaps, which relate, which m ust he understood the mode of creation, this final
We would not be afraid to “go to
RUN into endless branches which before we can know the geuesis or catastrophe of a freezing earth fa ll
1 exas” for a sh o rt time, nor t o ! a are
r« like
lib-xx the ____
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ing into the molten sun suited them
ROOTS Of
a gigantic m otion of any part of any star
A laska, hut we should certainly tree. R otate, ju s t rotate, this star- system .
right well. Our Friend is surprised
plan to live where chances for life haze tree, with its endless branches
Man may never know the gen- th a t said article ends with th e
are greater and where prayer is hke roots, according to the N ebular I esis (origin) of our sun aud solar “ image of G od;” but th a t is logi
more ap t to be answered.
H ypothesis, until it produces a system. It m ay have been the cal, and means th a t there is and
system of suns and w orlds,” th a t condeusing of nebulae, the atom s will be a God to look after his
The Nebular H ypothesis vs. The is, suns and planets! The “ seed of of which were the ‘‘first born” of images and m anage the business
h u m a n ity ,’ “ the image of God,” the ether under forces like light when, as the old hym n said:
Nebular Theory. Please
of s ta r
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fr.r.v.o ... 1
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m ay be in it; hut not even the most and electricity. It m ay have been,
P ie s irse, Dies ilia,
Solvet
Sasclum in favilla.
Alm ighty God, with all etern ity as Lockyer aud Proctor plausibly
Dav of w rath , th a t dreadful day,
for the job, could rotate the “end- suppose, the gradual aggregation of
When th is e a rth shall m elt away.
C ontinued from 3d page.
less branches” of a star-sprinkled comets, meteors and nebulous dust,
So the Theologs argue, th a t God
haze, or of endless “ winding gaps.” which have leli their “ pock m a rk s”
will certainly not have evolved
and yet g rad u al “com paction” into This star-sprinkled, endless root-
in the m oon; it m ay have been all this w ond and man with his moral
“ new suns, under the pressure of branched, winding-gapped tree neb
of these ways com bined, and more. and social instincts to end in
g ra v itatio n ”— all of which is “ all ula haze is the utter opposite of
I l is prem atu re to pretend th a t we nothing but a gassy haze. He will
but visible.”
Ah! hut not quite. a n y th in g possible under the rotat
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uazw .
t i e W ill
have a th eo ry ,” th a t ts, a “ s e e n - certainly have provided th a t hopes
W e will wait to see how orbs of ing N ebular Hypothesis. And i t i t l e H o l n t K l i l O i n c t u o r i . . . . . . . I.L __
tifle solution,” instead ot an ‘ hypo and . promises by which lie has I in
pale fire(?) which already exist the separate stars rotate with their
thesis,’ that is, only a speculation tu itiv ely inspired m an shall not
can be m ade “ new suns” by a condeusing nebula, then, as said
or conjecture, while we h u n t and fail, and cast both God and u n i
gradual com paction of a whirling above, the continuous nebula is
wail for tnese facts aud th eir laws. verse into “ moral b an k ru p tcy .”
motion “ under the pressure of ended in and by each separate sun
W hat we do know is the statics, “ Bor then, Oh! how you will need
g ra v itatio n .” Should this m echan rotating out its own planets. In
and largely the dynam ics, of our our God and Savior?” The C hris
ical jum ble of “ pale Are” ever any view of the nebula? presented
own solar system ; and by the law tian ju d g m en t day is th u s only
become not only “ all b u t,” bu in this article, the N ebular H ypo
ot equivalence of changes we are postponed; it is to be! You will
really “ visible,” one would bet thesis is a conjecture of th a t which
getting a t a theory which will ex meet it when you die, and the race
tem pted to suffer the “ horrors o is absolutely impossible.
plain the facts and general Jaws of itself, in its final earth an d sun-
im m o rta lity ” in w aiting to see it.
But, lastly, the wnole article coeiestial g ravitation and re p u l
baptism of fire!’ Science is thus
Now, all of this incoherent ver fails to touch the real difficulties
sion. In the m eantim e, the facts m ade toconflrm those “ fu n d am en tal
biage is supposed to he realized by or questions of the subject, for not
and lawn of equivalent correlation moral and religious in tu itio n s and
this, the only fact really tried to a single one of these nebula*, and
make sure the d u rab ility of our
be stated in the whole article, viz., not a single sta r, can be seen to ro earth and sun lor tune beyond our beliefs,” claim ed to lie of a higher
by “ the stran g e Trifid nebula in tate. We do not know yet th a t a power of com putation, as first above validity than any merely m aterial
S a g itta riu s,” which is described as single sun hut ours has even a intim ated. Ih is is ail we need to Science. The earth and our home are
thus turned into a place of proba-
a haze , sprinkled with stars and planet. The force th at can rotate know n, order lo begin to realize tion,
and then into a scientific and
channeled with d ark , winding gaps haze, endless-branched or not, is
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our hum an and E a r th ly P aradise natural hell, from which one can
ru n n in g into endless branches like h ard to conceive. It m ight float in
But not to know th a t the earth
the roots of a gigantic tree,” and a vortex, as Descartes supposed, and m an have a practical etern ity in nowise escape. T hus hell, which
which ‘contains the whole potency m t how can gravity alone “com before them , and to be lold th a t in had gone out of fashion, is now d is
of a future system of suns and m et!” and rotate it at the same snort or lo n g tim e H u m an ity will covered to be the new scientific
corner-stone of a heaven “ some
w orlds.” Then, as a clim ax, we tim e?
have a treeze and then end in a where,” and the gods, devils a n d
are told th a t this endless root-
The supposed morphology of star burning nebula, bus a depressing
branched tree of haze “ held the cluster» and constellations has, in ellect. No hum an ever reads H er- priests have us at th eir mercy
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seed of h u m an ity , aw aiting its the past, tilled the sky with beasts b e r t Spencer’s “ Essay on tne Neh- again!
I his may be laughable to the
tim e to sprout and spring up and and men. The morphology of neb- uiar H ypothesis,” or his conclusion
grow into the beauty of the “ im age ulae is filling it with hum an astro- ot his “ F irst P rin cip les,” w ithout real scientist, hut how few of such
of God!” 1 hus m an came from logy of endless-branched trees and feeling th a t the universe, instead of there are! J his utterly groundless
the seed of this tree, which is still other fancies just as groundless. “God A lm ighty,” iS passing the hypothesis has now In-come the last
refuge of theology, and so of p riest
in th e skyl
U ntil we get hold of the Hues of sentence of death upon m an and
We decliue to believe th a t Prof. the cur.ents and correlations of ihe his ea rth and race. To sensitive hood, and so of m oral, religious
despotism , and ho
so of
of
*7 ‘^,C 11 det‘PollHin.
Serviss ever em itted this nonsense. changes or forces which determ ine people it gives a c h i l i . One of our and political
It is more like the echo of a “ sp irit” the
leading and
and best
best Liberals
Liberals wrote
wrote me
me \
Con8^ ,i, e n t obstructive
the motions
motions , , aud
and therefore
therefore the
the leading
wars,
misery
and d ev iltry on this,
seance. The surprise is th a t Friend forms of nebula;, stars, suns and recently his th an k s for w hat I have
« a ♦ u
e a u h , ¡- and
e ‘I™*
tim e the»
\\ ettsteiu should he imposed upon comets, w ear« all at sea in the heretofore said on this subject, thus: P„,i
17, at
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, , e,ld l,fal1 hope of any real sw ial;
by it. It only . shows
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neces celestial spaces. These bodies can- ..U WBB on(. nf
»ary it is never to let an y “ theory.” not be explained separately but too as I a,
T , T k J ,;r‘‘gr''88 " r ,,f
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nebulous, sp irituous or other, o v e r /o n ly in and by their relations’ and! X ’„,“
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d,8e ” . F<>r lha «< * will some d a y
Don’t Foreclose the
Universe.
J
Whelm our
our common
common sense.
sense. That
T hat j j movements
m ovem ents as
whelm
as vast
vast
this article and our friend’s d e - 1 systems. In order to
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inter-related
rl1 WH,LEr l>ecs" 8e 8° “ P
“ »moke and caiastro p h e,”
inter-reiated some dav it
inter related some day .t ttl|l all go up m smoke and yon will be judged I n d iv id -
do th at, as
or catastrophe, and way down in valet ; and altruism , sociology and