THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, SEPfE>IÜER 2lJ> E y 3QJ ( 5 I t was a sim ilar Morn, .h a t on Aug. 1893, ravaged the the coasts coasts n u g . 27, lo y j, ravaged ................. - - 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 " xt i O ”" '™ ' 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 ' P“ , * 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 us B UOUJ from “ W eltratbsel,” we m m ust ust get get hold hold of of T T h heoloeian. ha d'- > ” eitrath sel,” we e o lo ® i* n a his interesting article in the New the relation n t» ,I,„_____ . . . ° * "enlog.ana have been quick d ‘8 ln le re s,,n g of ether to m atter a n d « ,1 8 , have been 1 ulck to “» y ° rk Jo u rn al last fall, in which acquire a new notion of it. ¿ ’i r " “ dvaD‘"« e in Oiia m atter 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 " la n k ,n d - " h e" ,,d8 “ an u interesting diagram of the for the next » tl . \ hypothesis was put out a century — - «• » K 2 * w - s - p e - .......... 4 U ICP'y io i\apoieon's star forms and m otions m ust oupHLinn u-iiv »n . , it with Lyra. He shows how our w ait till the., ..... . . . . . . . . . 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 # 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 % ^ — ‘ ¡creation story ano sub stituted Let us try to im agine a “ haze works itself P» . v »• • »u creat,on 8tory ar>a substituted i i j & w oiK 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 ____ . • 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 ‘ fr.r.v.o ... 1 .• 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 . ....... » 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 xl LA . 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 , - ------- - — xz v iv a u n AJLC1 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 * the 7 sam "am<’ _________ , , , e,ld l,fal1 hope of any real sw ial; by it. It only . shows how _____ 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 “ E » « h ly P a r» , nebulous, sp irituous or other, o v e r /o n ly in and by their relations’ and! X ’„,“ , »• , 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 f A a ■ W » a» k i a. a a . If c a 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