THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, NOVEMBER 8, E. M
300 (1900.)
These suggestions seem to sub- logic an,I psychic facts; and » hen verse of the actual fact inat as 1.
stant.ally cover the Nine Demands they do know, they keep the con- the case with oursuppos^ and an into some “ghostly” objective, as
of Liberalism, and yet they and a elusions to themselves, so as not parent consciousness of free wiB the evidence and punishment of
Secular government can never 1« to injure their practice among
Just as soon 7 . these “ F n guilt. So iu all Shakespeare no
attained and sustained if the masses “church people ”
facts” and
i
"g° one sees a ghost but the guilty one
are dominated by supernatural re-
So it is wi'th the “bottom la» of 8 ' okdom f Z T , ? 7 7 V who creates it.
Hgions.
It is a matter of duty Science,” the “conservation of en- „ess a„d noT K”
W e live in the same world as the
therefore, incumbent upon not only ergy” or the “equivalent correla- fu„ That it ?
r b' 7 ® ‘I'® Poet, and no one now sees a ghost
eyery Liberal, hut every P atriot , tion” of all changes in Man, aud in hi. Inwist. 7 * t°
*KE so’ ,he except as he is a Murderer of Time,
to do all he can to have these sup- the Universe. To the masses of |aIld (D ^M an T l ° °g“ ,s of
maltreating and fooling with this
erstitions of the past transfused the people, these »ords are as France, (Ribot and o’ h ts ) Ger’ real human world, of which he is a
and finally replaced by the Secu­ much a mystery as the “Holy many, (Haeckel and otbeb , are part. Of this fooling the brilliant
Professor gives us the most brilliant
lar religion of Science and Human­ Irinity” or the “Holv Ghost-”
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and - Scientific
methods con
hardly believe that he is earnest in
Just as all of the other matters of that law they daily travel on a
firm them. All medical books go his talk about steam being in any
we have referred to, have been trolley and use electric lights.
upon these thousand times proved sense a “function” of a tea-kettle,
shown to be capable of being grad­
What
university,
college
or
and U
admitted
facts auu
and laws. a Now
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ually transformed into Secular uses school (except always our L. U. O.) j this being g0> wbat ¡g more ridjcu. or that brains are, or are like
under Secular Science and senti­ •eenl. v em7-
an<1 slm' lar
lous than to spend our precious “prisms” through which “ the
ments, so is it with all of the great cent v,clones m Science to relig-I lime and lives ¡„ worgbj ; 0,d thought of eternity” is “streaming,”
religious ideas, concepts,santiments ,on education and practical life, spooks, or trying to hunt up new and which is cut off by death.
What and whence this “thought of
and motives.
The supernatural and declare and teach the conse- ones?
religious illusions of the past must quences? Not one is known to us. I Since the spook illusions are Eternity?” How can it stream
be replaced by the true and scien­
1 he result is that Liberal papers thus positively explained, and unless it is a liquid or fluid of
tific substitutes of the Religion of and publications of all kind are proved to be impossible , except as some kind? And if death ends
Science and Humanity. To affect bound to do all they can to make ' illusions, let us betake ourselves to “that special stream,” that is our
this must be the constant effort of these Scientific Truths and their some honest and useful business, consciousness, as the Open Court
Constructive Liberalism.
consequents generally known. For under the honest Religion of 8ci- says, how can it flow afterwards?
Thus the great public benefit to this is the only remedy against the , ence and Humanity,—or die in All of this talk is in utter defiance
of the law of correlation, and ap­
be secured by the future of Liber­ orthodox “Koreshanities” and the attempt.
parently without the slightest
alism are manifest and urgent en­ epookism, which make a solid wall
knowledge of the existence of such
ough. The pressing question is against further human progress.
Post Mortem Lectures on f ost Mortem
a law at all.
what can the next Congress do to
Accordingly, we give by extracts
Immortality.
Again we cannot believe that the
realize them?
in this lorch, the substance of Ri-
It is human aud praiseworthy most brilliant Professor of Psy­
bot’s well known little Scientific
book on the “Diseases of Person­ to talk by others after death, if you chology in the world, and the orna­
The Eclipse of Science.
ality,” (published by the Open can. But then you must arrange ment of our Grandest University,
The great pity is that when a | Court Company, Chicago, 111.) We your subjects to gibe with the world has put out his answer to the
great fact or law in Science is dis-j do it to make known the A. B. C. that is to be, and allow your Depu­ “over-crowdedness of Heaven,” and
covered, there cannot be a mighty i facts of modern Mental Science- ty to live and talk away ahead of the “glut” and “satiety” of God.
earthquake or an astonishing ex-! aud we do that because we recently you; else evolution will make you without a smile of derision for
plosion or apparition in the sky, so ' found a “regularly educated phy and him appear very ridiculous those who are willing to use this
nonsense from a great Professor
that the great masses of stupid hu- j sician” to be doubting them, for he after a few years.
This is becoming the fate of those and a great Institution, to impose,
man beings could get it “shot j thought “consciousness might be a
into them” that something really I spook after all.” Let all those expiring rich men who try to die by “authority,” a stupid, unscien­
wonderful and useful has happen- j who may be of this way of think- easy by the helping of some expiring tific, unsocial and thoroughly ex­
ed. Even when white people are ing notice these facts in reading religious dogma. They try to trans­ posed superstition, upon their ig­
not as stupid and ignorant as Hot- these extracts:—That life, mind fer their expended vitality to some norant, innocent, hopeful, pityable
by
money dupes and victims. Macbeth’s
entots, they are so preoccupied, etc., are the changes in protoplasm dogma
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with their old notions and preju- ' only. Anyone who can find life and tO pay for Iectures in behalf of the ghost-seeing crime is the snow-
dices, or so busy with their busi- mind any where else or in anything dogma, to be delivered after their whiteness of innocence when com-
had
lectures jared with the life and soul de­
ness," society, politics and church else may easily make a million death. n Thus
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affairs, that they -‘have no time” to ¡dollars; but it is simply and scien in behalf of expiring “ Prophecy,” stroying murders of this continued
“The Blessed Trinity” and “Evi­ dupery. The dead woman’s money
appreciate what the all important tificallv, the impossible,
victories of Science mean. They! Next, note that consciousness, dences of Christianity,” and kin­ could never have been applied to a
worse purpose. The Open Court
simply goon with their old babble- the ego or self, is the concomitant dred subjects. But a lady with
exposes the nonsense gently, but
ment, and to them Science is [ and resultant correlation of pertain the glorious name of Ingersoll has
lets off the evident criminal use of
eclipsed by the “Tower of Babel.” special “states and conditions” of left means for lectures on Immor­
it as a“bull-doze,”of authority,with
1 he greatest discovery ever made the nervous changes in animals, tality, and thus has called into
by the human race that is, of the! which animals and man are simply voice and print on that subject, a mild politeness undeserved.
Men and Brethren! let us have
true or heliocentric solar system, ¡masses of co-operating protoplas- Prof. William James, “the brilliant
about 1600, did not
— get beyond I rale cells.
The greater part of Harvard
narvar<1 Psychologist,”
p e n o lo g ist," and the common honesty and common in­
a few astronomers in a hundred these cell and nerve changes do not
1 appea,'f' in 8n’ telligence in religion, or else
years. Bruno, »ho tried to make reach or produce a part of, nor are
,0Olan‘n; , 7 ’ n° 'hing that silence.
it known in Philosophy and Relig- represented In consciousness, which "® d,8tln8',,8hed Professor can
ion was roasted for his work; and results as a composite ego out of a 7 Ca" 7 wh° lly V0'd of intere8b
Our offer to give a copy of George
the masses of the people practical-1 “sea” of sub-conscious cerebrations. but ln th>» case the interest isfound
ly, especially In Religion, even to- Therefore it can never consciously I n ‘^ “bsu'd"^ with which an im- Jacob Holyoake’s English Secular­
day, know nothing about it. The know the origin of itself, its
! f"™'blllty is ill astral,-d. Thus the ism with a year’s subscription to
discovery of the circulation of the ings, will and motives, until it , rofe88or say8: “Tbe inference the Torch of Reason for one dollar
blood could not he gotten through learns them by Objective, Scientific v iPby81OlOgy. 18 that 8in«<‘
ias met with such a hearty re­
the doctors of that day. The dis- and true correlative investigation tbou8bt is a function of the brain,
covery that life is the vital process showing bow they are caused and when tbe brain perishes so also sponse that we have decided to
of protoplasm only; and that feel- pre-determined.
Thus correlative
' he t,,ou*?ht perish”; or as renew the offer. This book is cloth
“ b®'Ore hi” :
hound, gilt top, 150 pages, and
ing and mind are only the result­ “determinism” takes the place of MaCb®th
ants of that process, though really “Fate” aud solves and explains the n . ■
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" Tbetlme bas been sells for 50 cents. We give it free
made a hundred years ago, is to- illusion of “free-will,” just as the X ’woul.fdfe
lh® with a year’s subscription to the
day practically unknown—even True Astronomy - explains the
illus- And
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™ ny «four .learned” physicians ion of the “rising and setting” of O nle <8 the conscience ci his mur- have only a limited number so
know very ht,le of these great b,o- the sun. which is exactly the re- derer transformed his own subjective order at once.