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.
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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
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„ peare and \ oltaire. Does not th a t
seems for a time insuperable. So
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' " 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 .
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