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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1901)
9 “ TRUTH BEARS THE TORCH IN THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH.”— Lucre this. rH p R s iZ tY T ’i ï N ï . n . r 37, Love S h a ll C onquer. BY G USTAV S P IL L E R . ations of m an . T h e m eaning e . m . 301 (lo o t.) 2. o f' m ankind were practically brothers, istent, and w ithout regard of their th e w ord w as soon e x te n d e d in a independent of God or Pope ; for progress and developm ent through g »od sense to sig n ify g en tle, h u m a n e they were children of the same time. or p hilanthropic conduct, cu ltu re or ‘EARS are coming, years are going, n janj1Prs • an(j thence, also, it came Creeds m ay change or pass aw ay, to w a n liberal culture, education but the <, i> growing and d breeding. All of these j earth and race, with the same fac- If we tu rn to the progress of h u ulties and needs, hound togetherby m anity and its growth in time— a common interest, inheritors of the th at is, its C ontinuity (from L atin sam e past, and trem bling or hoping contino-are, to join in, or connect) Selfish claims will soon no longer 'vords aud " " " " ' g ' are common in before the sam e future. I t became — a still more wonderful bond of Raise th e ir h arsh d isco rd an t sounds. 1 classical L atin, and have been in- clearer th a t no individual could ex unity is disclosed. The Present is For th e law of love shall conquer. h erite d by o u r m o d ern lan g u ag es. ist or had ever existed but as the ever the child of the P ast and the B u rsting h a tre d ’s narrow bounds. But the next step in the history rPSU,t of a «»ciety of some kind. m other of the F uture. In d iv id u als, Soon p e rsisten t, brave devotion of this word is singular and im port Thence came the feeling of the tribes, peoples, races, nations, em To th e good of all m an k in d , an t. It took place after the so- brotherhood and of the rights of pires, civilizations, religions, have Shall lx* deem ed th e chief em otion called classical period of the Latin man, and the consequent social no explanation, no m eaning, ex T hat im pels and guides th e m ind. H u m an love shall spread a glory, language, and when the Roman changes which still continue. The cept as children of the Past. The French R evolution w ’as a grand a d F illing men w ith childlike m ir th ; Em pire was falling before the laws of social origin and growth Songs of joy proclaim th e story m onition th a t the word H um anity C hristian, a higher, a spiritual bond transform history into science by Of a fair, transfigured e a rth . had come to stand for the deepest or integration, which intended to following the course of the ever-ac Be ye as th e light of m orning, sentim ent and highest interests of include “ all kindreds, peoples and cu m u latin g social power through Like th e beauteous daw n u nfold; m ankind. Soon it began to appear the ages. N ations, civilizatious and tongues,” as m embers of one vast By your ra d ia n t lives adorning and eternal fam ily, whose F ather as “ the solidarity of nations and religions, have indeed fallen, but A ll the world w ith hues of gold. Thaw th e h e a rts th a t now are frozen, was at once God in Heaven and peoples,” assigning to each and all only hecanse their life has passed Thaw them w ith th e rays of lo v e ; Pope on E a rth . Some word was a place, a right and a duty, as part into a higher integration. In war, Know th e task th a t ye have chosen needed to express the grand con of the grand organic Social Being governm ent, law, industry litera S hall be blest all else above. crete aggregation of the hum an of our p lan et— the evolving M an ture, art, science, low voices reach race,and the adjective word human kind. us from a future too remote for us The New Humanity. Thus the concrete m eaning of the ity was the suitable word. It io h e a r clearly, hut ever swelling in word, introduced to describe the passed then from its old and merely volume and strength, rising F ugue AN m ay be best defined as mass of the members of the celestial ab stract m eaning of hum an q u al like one above the other— all en the IMMORTAL ANIMAL. By and papal hierarchy, became ex- ities,conduct and education, to mean forcing the tru th th a t the living are this fact he differs front all also m ankind at large, the concrete ‘ ’tided to all m ankind as mem bers more and more hut the advance the brutes and even the anthropoids. of the grand terrestia! com m on whole of the hum an species. It line of the em pire of the dead. But H e is im m ortal because as a social wealth or republic, ideal, and yet thus embodied all men, and all h u it is in religion as the chief bond anim al he m ust live, work and en real, and growing through the ages. man qualities, while acquiring this or union of H u m an ity , th a t the joy with others; and each genera Since the F rench Revolution the main center of unity and continuity new m eaning it has never lost the tion in h erits the past, and com m its old. The new m eaning is the re increase of diplom atic, com m ercial, should be traced. There, m odern its life-work to future generations. sult and outcome of the old. It scientific, in d u strial and social in science points out the law of the A ttention to the new scientific added a concrete organism to repre- tercourse between all peoples has three phases of states of mir.d with m eanings of the word H u m an ity , sent and realize the hum an and strengthened the sentim ent and which m an k in d have regarded and is, therefore, absolutely necessary. hum ane qualities it had expressed conviction th a t all are parts of one sought to explain the world, and We give accordingly the statem ent before. T hus H umanity becomes a great earth ly fam ily, whose in te r through which every hum an con of it which has been put out by the noun. eats are in a thousand ways inter- ception is liable to ¡»ass, viz; Society of H u m an ity , in the city of Since this concrete use of the woven. When an Indian q u arrels 1. The Theological, which as New Y ork. It will give us the word was attain ed it has acquired with his squaw on Lake W innipeg sum es th a t the world and objects foundation of the new life and h o p e ; greater depth in sentim ent and the price of furs rises in London, about m an, and his feelings w ithin RELIGION OF HUMANITY. greater extent in its application. says C arlyle. Every thought and him, are the results of wills of sp ir There are few who do not kr.ow For exam ple, when (from 1400 to act in some way becomes a wavelet its th a t control them . In the early th a t the progress of Science and 1600) tlie true form and relations in the tide of h u m an ity . Man is savage and statio n ary races these M ankind has given a peculiar in- of the earth and of the heaven were th e creature, and yet the creator of wills are supposed to reside in or terest and depth of m eaning to the revealed by the voyages of He Gam a, 80C’ety » f°r near the objects them selves, and “ Man is not m an, but in Society word humanity . This interest and Colum bus and M agellan, and the this stage of belief is called Fetich- Man means Society.” m eaning will appear both from its discoveries of Copernicus and Gal- ism; afterw ard these wills are less — W illiam Sm ith. ened in num ber by the prom inence etymologv and history. ileo, m an was compelled to turn to Like those other fundam ental his fellow m an for comfort and All this seems to be true in the of the more strik in g objects of n a t words, Religion, Science and Pos- support as the celestial spheres van- lesser social divisions of fam ily, ure and of the grander gods, aud itive, this word H u m an ity has be- ished. He found, too, th a t no voy- tribe and nation. Each individual thus results Polytheism . The con come the common inheritance of ager could do more th an sail round is little more than a knot of social ception of one controlling God, and m odern E uropean languages from the earth everywhere peopled by forces, powers and influences which of the Infinite as one, gives rise to the L atin language and civilization. m an. I t was also plain th a t there in their effect are co-extensive with M onotheism as the final stage of In th a t language the word homo, a had been a singular advance in the the race. Society and H u m an ity theology, m an, gives us the adjective hum an- history of E uropean civilization by exist by the S olidarity of th eir 2. A tten d an t upon polytheism , us, hum an or h u m a n e ; and then which it was carried far beyond the com ponent parts. This word Sol- and especially upon the disinte- the adverbs h u m an itu s or hum ani- rem ainder of the in h ab itan ts of the id arity (from the L atin solidus, gration of m onotheism , there arises ter, m eaning hum anly or hum anely e a rth —arid thus the fact of histor- solid) m eant in civil law the part- a second state of m ind, i a which th a t is, according to, or as be- ical progress was clearly manifest J nership in which “ each is answer- i qualities, faculties and nam es take comes a m an; and thence we find I hen came G rotius and the rise of able for all, and all for each.” This the place of the wills and god? in H u m ao itas, i. e., H u m an ity , but international law, with some appeal word is used to give the solid or the philosophy th a t explains the sim ply as an ab tra ct or adjective at least to the sentim ent of justice j statical view of society, in which its world. T his phase of thought is noun, m eaning only hum an nature, and general welfare of m ankind, order, and the interdependence of called M etaphysical, and isextrem e- or the qualities, feelings and inclin- j Then followed the discovery th at the parts, are considered as co-ex-, ly prevalent in our age. I t is the n