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 /
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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-
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