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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1901)
THE TORCH OF REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON, JANUARY 17, E. M. 301 (1901.) Science, so th a t it may become intelligible! U ntil th a t is done, do you stop abusing it, lying about it, and forcing it upon those to whom it can only be a fraud and an in jury. and its replacem ent by the infinite Cosmos, with laws invariable and eternal; and (2) th at th e hum an element, which was the F ather part in the conception of th a t God, and w’hich was afterw ards repre- sented in and as th e C hrist on Religious Nostalgia. ............. .. ~ or the collective h u m an ity on the earth . M ankind fms become the special providence to m an. T hat H u m an ity replaces the old idea and hone a thousand tim es more effectually than any celestial F a th er whose wavs of carin g for us and of justice were alw ays “ past finding o u t,” sim ply because they existed only in our im aginations. And so in regard to all the other religious conceptions of the old faith. Take for instance the Holy Ghost or Com forter, which Science has Shown to be an im perhot ap- prehension of love caught up and placed in the skies as a personal To waft us home the message of Despair? and crying, “Can Fancy’s fairy hands no veil create To hide the sad realities of fate?’’ y o j “ F an cy ” can never do th at, hut Science can. As Goethe said it once for a ll:— o noble. His v iew of im m ortality, from the Masonic Poems, and of the growth of »he generations as one m ighty in d iv id u al, from his Dorn- *'er» letter, presented in this Torch, ought to he carefully considered, W h e n a great m an, who is a lead- t y . S* * < i- > > >* X »*/** 1 E rro r, a great question, he solves it not For T ru th ever heals the wounds she only for him self, hut all his fellows The interesting letter (on page < nia> make. w’ho are elevate^ high enough to in this Torch) from an esteemed How the extension of true Science meet the difficulty and need the friend who reads the Torgh, presents over the hum an race, and how its solution. a case not so rare as it ought to be, evolution brings new “ life and im- The im portance of th a t which of sp iritu al nostalgia— a m alady m o rtality to lig h t,” may begin to G oethe said or. this great subject which we m ay call religious home appear from w hat elsewhere shines has never been appreciated. It is sickness. W hen we leave th e home in th is Torch. now generally adm itted th a t he of childhood, especially in our was the last great poet of the h u younger years, nostalgia, the de m an race; “ the first of the m oderns” sire to return to th at old environ The human or Altruistic Immortality. as Carlyle justly called him ; the ment to which our nervous system successor of the wonderful Shakes- has been adapted as it grew up, To the facts given and referred to I , . . IA .. o „ peare and \ oltaire. Does not th a t seems for a time insuperable. So . J J ' ,, T ’ ' " 7 ' mean th a t h eo f all men wa»evolved when the intellect is compelled to H aeckel’s “ K iddie of the Universe’ by all of the past of the hum an leave the old land m arks of religion Im m o rtality , prim ed in the last race to solve this great question? and travel into the new world of Torch, no answ er has ever been form but the reality is home life and W hen the old world is knocked out Science, the “ soul,” th at was but love on ea rth . For In d iv id u a l, b“? n B1’ «". do we see how any the im pression of th at old world, social love has now become the 1 can he given. W h e n the lacts and who is to create the new one which is to take its place? W hy our great seems as though it would droop and tru eco m fo rter an d the true “ sp irit” laws of ,,atu re are ‘“ "S' dl8do8t'd creative genius—and who is he? die like a tran sp lan ted flower. But bv w hich the h eart of the hum an and the inevitable lesu il la m anifest W hy, as the nam e signifies the the cure for the sp iritu al nostalgia it may be healthy to have an ex ought not to be so dfficult as it often sufferer is w arm ed and lighted, so plosion of sen tim en tal disappoint Poet (Poieo I m ake) the m aker of is. There is some sense in this th a t which was supposed a dove or ment. Such comes from a most e s our new states of m in d —which is our new w orld— th a t in which we m alady, when the youth cries for star from the skies, has been found teemed correspondent in another a living light in the hum an heart have to live. G oethe was the last the sight of his childhood’s home, colum n; and to th a t we of the of these great creators. He lifted for th at home is in actual existence, itself. As to the “ fair h u m an ities” which ¡Torch add an arlicle on Keligious aloft a new table-land of th o u g h t and a few years of labor may enable and feeling for his successors to live it to be revisited and often occu have been established around j h e j " r Hotnesit.kness. But there is only one real cure, upon. Therefore, not as a m atter pied again. But the nostalgia for H oly Virgin M other, it is now im and th a t is a good solid grounding of curiosity or of fancy, but of high the heaven, etc., (p erhaps devils I possible not to see in th eir coeles- in the religion of Science and H u est interest and d u ty , we should see too) ought to be easily curable be tai forms a n y th in g but an illusion m anity. The first step is to get cause of its u tter im possibility and o r a m yth. But the whole of that how he disposed of this all-reaching some clear conception of what is question for himself, and how it hopelessness. When you stop and conception had its origin, and is m eant by the word H um anity: its applies to ourselves. They m ay he think a m om ent th at such things being a thousand times realized, growth throughout tim e, in coNTIN- our words of fate, ho we present are not, and never were, but th at in the life and love, and continuing they were the childish m irage influences fur good, which c„ n,HS: dTv; and its existence as the pres- them for careful consideration in dream s which Science has dis frou. the evolution of the ra d ia n t en* g en era''» » - » hicli is its solid - an o th er colum n. closed as the utterly impossible, it womanhood with which all hiim au AKIT'- T h ' 8 fact th a ‘ ,he who,e h " m a" should become easy to ad ju st the | beings are being blessed from birlh C ats K nocked Out! 1 to burial trace and especially the European “ soul” to the actual world th a t has W atch -C ats g en erally undersell th e We d are not suppose th a t o u r i and A m erica" p a rt of it. is a great replaced the old one. ib is re stores, h u t since I am giving my e n tire placem ent has been explained re correspondent is cheerless because 8," 'bl1 a,,d growing organism is a a tte n tio n to m ail o rd ers, I have facili peatedly in the Torch, and yet here of the fading o u t of the old relig- new <l'aenvery. How this fact has ties to undersell th e l>est C atalogue H ouses. is orieof our esteemed readers w ho ious conception of Hell and the been realized into a distinct concept tu rn s up ju st as if nothing had the Devils; or th a t she is inconsol-1irt sb,,w " "» o u r «rst pages. Con- C o m p a r e C a r e f u ll w ith L a te s t 1 9 0 1 C a ta lo g u e s . happened, or ever been said. Yvliat able for w ant of the “ blessed doc structive Liberalism can have no earth ly or celestial sense is there in trines” of total d epravity and eter substance w ithout an u n d e rsta n d Best A m erican w atches, IS size in 2, 3 or 4 ounce S ilverine screw cases ; “ T re n crying for “ m ansions in the skies,” nal d am n atio n . If she is grieving ing of the rise and progress of this to n ,” “ S ta n d a rd ” o r “ C e n tu ry ,” 7 when you know perfectly well th at for them w*e know of no m eans of hum an progress out of which we Jew els, $3.50. 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I $4.o0 e x tr a ; in 20-year gold filler!, open Religion of H um anity. Ib is face, $4 ex tra; 25 y ear, $6.50 e x tr a ; 20 in view’ of the “ E arth ly P aradise” fort instead of expending our ener- , narrio w a s firs t u s e d b v T h o m a s ye ar h u n tin g case, $6.50 e x tra, or in 26- which is now growing to he? Why gies and m eans to defeat Devils, nam e waM n m URefl 1 nom as year hllntini, f.aHe> ^ >50 extra cry when your pleasant dream s e s c a p e H e lls , or increase the glory Paine in th e S e v e n th N um ber of All gold filled cases are a rtistic hand accom panied by M fr.’s g u a ra n are being more than realized? of phantom Gods never seen, and his Crisis d u rin g our Revolution, chase«!, tee a n d w atches k ep t in o rd er for one So about our “ F a th e r” in heaven which we now know never existed. 1778 J he unity and progress of year. O th e r styles and soli«! gol«l eq u ally as and his special providences. The Still we expect to see our fair m ankind was being worked out at reasonable. Corresjsm«! w ith m e for law of correlation shows us in a correspondent w ringing her hands the sam e tim e by K ant, H erder and |'anythingln the Je w e le r’s L in e a n d s a v e pbell’s “ Pleasures Goethe in G erm an y ; and by Pascal m oney. O rders filled from any c ata- m om ent th a t such a “ F a th e r” was and reciting C am pbell’? . - . I loeue at , prices _ quote«! _ _ _ _ o _ r _ less. j • • .. • j . • ra v Save a double thought which has been of H ope,” beginning in the skies:— ami then by Condorcet in r rance, th . i : is ---- i:~. « I — price-list. pay freight realized in two ways: (1) By •'Oh star-evedScience! hast thou wand. Goethe's im pression of it was, fo r' 0 T T O W E T T S T E IN . ¡ t h a t tim e, singularly clear and the extension of the su p ern atu ral, ere«l th e re R o c h e lle , I II.