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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1900)
T orch of R eason . • TRLTH bears THE TORCH IN THE SEARCH FOR T R U T H .-_ Z u c r c t t u 5 . VOL. 4. S IL V E R T O N , OREGON. THURSDAY* NOVEM BER 29. E. M. 3<>O (,9 0 0 .) NO. 47. To Give Is To Live. aS A lim e" tivt‘,,ewi-i which » °u ld divest them of their staid, m atter-of-fact tendency, I s,n,ply prom pts , he deed9 marve)0U8 E is dead whose hand is not open m ay often be observed h ten " ’ “and U';!eSSCOntrol,ed bV n indiVidUa* h8S •“ which wide To help th e need of a h u m an b ro th e r; wool,! I i , , <Jo,",cle" ,,,,usne8’. W ieve the reputed C hristian mir- am ong individuals of all ran k s, aud m anifestly serve a very useful He doubles th e length of his life-long the rich i ** "d ** " St<>al fr° m a ,aree developm ent of Won- ride, , n f t th ° ' i° heT lhe P° ° r - der’ ' ,y fillin« a g r« - purpose in offsetting w hat would W ho gives his fo rtu n ate place to a n ,n e ,‘n . 7 ‘Dan,fw,““ ' on is by no able a e ra tio n s aw akened in eon- otherw ise he too skeptical an d d is o th er agreeably incredulous action of the hi requent. Conscientious- sequence of th a t belief, in its turn And a th o u san d m illion lives are his, intellect. • . . W ho carries th e world in his sym pathies. ness, although itself such a power L haises the judgm ent in favor of the By com paring these facts of n o r ful elem ent for good, and so neces To deny reality and legitim acy of the m ir mal m ental function with the h is Is to die. - a r\ for the control of the other acles. It is thus clearly im possible faculties .1 j ..........— inus clearly im possible Throw gold to the far-dispersing wave, the“ ntel’l o f d; pende,,‘ UP"n ,b a t this sentim ent can possess any tory of the religious creeds, it is And your sh ip s sail hom e w ith tons’of the .ntellect for guidance. Indeed superiority over the intellect as 'a very evident th a t the whole s tru c tr e a s u r e ; ture of su p ern atu ralism , with all nothing can be more obvious than guide to tru th , when from its very its beauties and terrors, has been ( ’are not for com fort, all h ard sh ip s, hat in every age and clime, people brave, n atu re it m ust antagonize all a t developed from an abuse of the lave been educated to do wrong in And evening and age shall sup w ith tem pts to destroy the phantom s m ental faculties rath e r th an by an the firm belief th at they were ful p le a s u re ; upon which it feeds. In depend obedience to the true Bible of N a Fling h e alth to th e su n sh in e, wind and filling their highest duty. ently of intellectual cognition, it is rain , tu re.— [The B rain and th e Bible. Now, the faculty of V eneration, no more able to solve the problems And roses shall com e to th e cheek like the appetite for food, cannot of again. of the W hence and W hither, or to The E vanescence of E vil. itself suggest an object which shall To give teach uh the duties of life, than the deserve its homage. If it can be Is to live. avarice of a miser, or the egotism BY HERBERT SPENCER. superior to reason, why have the of a ty ran t. W h at is our life? Is it w’ealth and religious nations of the world a l stre n g th ? As regards the rem aining one of LL evil results form the n o n rf we, for H u m a n ity ’s sake, will lose it, ways worshiped deities which cor W e sh all find it a h u n d red fold, a t responded exactly in character to the so-called “sp iritual faculties,” adaptation of constitu tio n Hope, it is thought by m any to be len g th , to conditions. T his is tru e the peculiar intellectual statu s of W hile th ey shall forever lose, who re the basis of the alm ost universal of every thing th a t Jives. Every their votaries? T h at veneration fuse i t ; belief in the im m o rtality of the suffering incident to the hum an And n atio n s th a t save th e ir union and m ust be directed through the in soul, and therefore an indirect body, from a headache up to a fa peace tellect to its objects, is too self-evi A t th e cost of rig h t, th e ir woe shall in dent to require any extended il proof th a t there is a future life. tal illness— from a burn or a sp rain There are, however, no facts to to accidental loss of life* is trac e. crease. lustration. They save support the assum ption th a t Hope, able to the having placed th a t body I he faculty of W onder, miscall A grave. ed “S p iritu a lly ,” has 1 e^n regarded unaided by external evidence pre in a situation for which its powers by m any as properly the faculty of sented to the intellect, would in did not fit it. N or is the expres The Pilot of the Passions. stinctively suggest a belief in a sion confined in its application to faith in the su p ern atu ral, and spirit world. The tru e office of physical evil; it com prehends m oral p articu larly in the C hristian Bible. BY EDGAR C. BEALL. B ut if it has the power to select its this faculty, regarded by itself, is evil also. No m atter w hat th e sim ply to produce a feeling of con special n atu re of the evil, it is in objects, why is it stim ulated by N surveying the m ental consti fidence in the future a tta in m e n t of variably referable to the one gen cognitions and beliefs which vary w hatever the other faculties may eric cause w ant of congruity be tution we are struck by the as interm inably as the intellectual desire, w ithout any reference to tween fact th a t the different faculties the faculties an d th eir train in g and biases of its posses possibility, probability or reasona spheres of action. are not all of the sam e rank or im sors? As, for instance, am ong Mo portance, aud th a t some of them bam m edana we find it excited a n d 1, bleness. E qually true is it th a t evil p er , Hence, ’ to “ assert th a “ t these theSe w ithin them - petually tends to disappear. Iu are adapted to be leaders and d i gratified bv the N o ,.., „ ,.u ...... u " lree facul,le8 gratified by the K oran, although rectors of the others. selves an intelligence which can virtue of an essential p rin cip le o f unaffected by the iraditious of Bud determ ine th e reality of certain life, this non-adaptation of an o r A bundant experience shows th a t dliism . Among the Jews we find the existence of » Wílípíl which 1 • m ankind are happiest when acting if i» , vIJv ih ganism to its conditions is ever be - ' objects, i - - , “X - iHLCD — C© Of t ™ is uuder the suprem e control of the ing rectified; and m odification of P entateuch, although indifferent possible or incredible, because in moral sentim ents and enlightened one or both, continues u n til th e to the alleged m iracles of C hrist; direct conflict with the first p rin adaptation is com plete. W hatev er intellect. T h at is, allowing to each while among Roman Catholics and ciples of scientific and philosophic of the lower propensities a sphere possesses vitality, from the elem ent I ro testan t C hristians its phases of al investigation, is as irrational as ary cell up to m an himself, in clu of activity which shall be pro m anifestation present still different nounced by the intellect to be legit •o say th a t the paintings of Rem sive, obeys this law. We see it il peculiarities, which, in some re b ra n d t or Titian can delight the lustrated in the acclim atization of im ate, and which can give no of spects, are diam etrically opposed to fense to tbe m oral 9e „ tim e „ ,9. T h . blind, or th a t the sym phonies of plants, in the altered habits of do b“ n d ’ The cold intellectual ^act Beethoven can th rill the deaf. m esticated anim als, in the v ary in g I hat these faculties have for sim ply desiring gratification, w ith characteristics of our own race. of belief, combined with the influ m any ages been exercised to great out the least power to determ ine I h at such changes are tow ard ence of this faculty, constitutes th eir proper objects. Thus, for ex ___ “ faith-” En» «i iv stiiutes ^ extent . CI1V „1 unectjon with in w connection with a a belief belief fiiness for surrounding circu m am ple, A lim entiveness sim ply de- duces sim nlv 1 ’ ^ T° \ tbe PUPe rn a tu ra l, m ay be easily sires food; but the assistance of the when a n v V r p easurable ernot,on explained. T he function of Won- stances no one can question. W hen intellect is necessary to decide as is e l re,iJar ao l7 * rcurnstance der, as before stated, is to inspire we see th a t the dweller in m arshes lives iu an atm osphere which is to w hat is wholesome. A cquisit- its »ratifir"/^ f m ,n d * As 1,1 the m ind a sym pathy with any certain death to a stra n g e r— th a t iveness, if indulged w ithout any on the n o v e /or e x tr" - kUP’ thing new»-rem ark®ble, or appar- the H indoo can lie down an d sleep reference to the decisions of the in- acter of certain oh’ cb a r‘ e,,tIy inexplicable, under circura- under a tropical suo, w hilst h i, tellect, would be as much gratified ed by the in te lle c t R 8C° n t®mp a ** stance8 where dem onstration is for by l be accum ulation of stolen prop- “ im practicable or white m aster with closed blinds, and w ater sprinklings, and p u n k a / ______________ “ at* O' produce belief i„ difficult. T h i/ , 0 th e crty , as by the proceeds of legiti m ale business. Benevolence* is r e p X eve^y a c t ,‘ j USn,l> the extravagant, and th e can hardley get a doze— th a t the , repels every act of the ■ntellect | rom antic, relieves the m ind of th at G reenlander and the N eapolita , subsist com fortably on th eir re- H A I
