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T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, MARCH 20, E. M. 302 (1902.)
CONSTRUCTION, M il.
would be sim ply m urderous to keep
on sending white soldiers and peo-
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ile there to conquer not on.y the
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Our “ Souls.
latives,
ia u v rB, but
uuv N ature and its - soui-
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apping
clim
ate.
W
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m
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send
apping clim ate. W e mig it
jag| T orch ¡t was pointed
■elays of soldiers and robbing ta< -
thoroughly Science bad
Banters over d “ colony or ■ te rn -
the {alRe, and lhen reCon-
:ory as E ngland oe. over i l Ptrucjt*d a true knowledge of the
But w hat a shameful wora that
Jeptbg of
wouhl he for a Republic ? - a n ever-
UIltili „„ and on,
festering woun.l, d rain in g our life,
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c h e m istry , Dy-
and contradicting our revolution,
U btM, reach-
and our, and all R epublicanism ? I
C()1>goioa8oe88 and
3. Now what does Science do with soul at present to realize, much
this whole dream business? In- less describe I The Copernican A b -
Ptea(j ()f any “ person,” “ sp irit” or tronomy was thought hum iliating,
entitv coming to or going from the for it left m ankind and our little
dream er, it is proved th a t a all
ll earth apparently a g grain
r a m u of . sand in
dream ing is a continuous state and the infinity of space and of worlds,
proCess of feeling and half conscious instead of having all suns and
thought going on iu an an im al’s world created for it as the old be-
(dog or m an) nervous system. In lief was.
work> o Tbe
Now, where can other th a n HV-
0, Ma „ ,” ( p. 306), we have a man intelligence b , found to com_
barometer of all of these nervous prehend them all . All of the ol 1
change8 a nd th eir concom itant feel- theologtcal not.ons were childish
jng8 and p8ychic processes. They indeed, in com parison to th e scie -
Make a S tate of these away-otl
que8, ioo i8 how wi|l
ielands and people? T hat would g .
reyer8e and rep| aCe the old
give them the casting vote in every
8o givB u6
close question in our S enate and &
wbich ty
¡n j u
House,
and is nol to he thought
of. new wQRi d ? ’
□ use, a.iu
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The result is th a t we are honora-
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We cannot here give the whole
bly, hum anly and m orally
boundI
p
beKi0| I1(,rm a „ y , with a first act of
“a tte n tio n ” and pass down through
8om n(denceidream ing, 8leep, trance,
j08ensib ility. The ab-
-
norm al forms of psychic action
at-
tific position of m ankind as tlie in-
telligent center nt the know s-le
world. T ru ly "bee,ice heals he
wounds she has made - e v e n the
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t „ pride.
e ,,u
wounds
tending these norm al processes are
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C A R N E G IE ’S C R E A T O R S .
unhealthy and diseased action and
to prepare t em to e®0Ine 6 ‘ . chology—only the steps by which appear on the other side of th at
Is It Best to Continue Them?
R epublic tie y can uiiJ
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i ;t ha8 reaobed t |,e grand solution, barom eter. They are found to be,
lection. To th a t end they need an
DO. undue concentration, ecstacy, “con-
BY. HO N. T. W . D A V E N PO R T .
im proved and an im provable p o p u - 1. Instead of the t
v ersio n s” visions, “ suggestion,”
lation of the color and kind which turn, th at m an on y a, a
ullconBcious cerebration, and dual-
Some of the T orch correspond-
can prosper there. There are too th a t tdlier annua Is we re s
8B„ . i8ldation, h a ,luoi. f „ts see... to think it no trick at all
m any Chinese already. But why uuies w .a ‘
en| a r„i„g
n o t t r y t h e Japanese, and our own shows us a gra
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colored people? W hites we could stair-w ay of life, and then o. lia ,
end for a tim e, to help make con- m emory, m stinct, ch„nee, rea on
litio n s attractiv e and profitable to judgm ent, design. ( eles s
hope
dl. For attractio n and profit m ust aspiration and
'zafron th e
>e the loadstone of all im p ro v e I u ltim a te of which it is now beyond
ment and im m igration.
In th is ¡the “ constructive im agination of
way roav not those puzzling islands any hum an being to forecast.
he
becom e’an honor to U. S. and a field to be overlooked by the stu-
blessing to them selves, and all the dent of m ind, is die whole world
n e s t of the w orld?”
of p ro to p la s m -w ith ,.s m, robes
nation, som nam bulism , exhaustion
from conscious or unconscious psy-
, „ervous r e a c
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raDCe, in.
do, k b . rgy
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sen. . y
4. Now all of these Hates and pro­
cesses of norm al, and of abnorm al
psychic action, are not only proved
to be the correlate result of known
conditions and facts, but the Ex
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ua„ alld do a r l ,fi­
£ « a c tu a lly ^
for one man to make a m illion dol-
,a rs or even m any m illions, and
m ake them on the square, t o o - t h a t
it i8 all in kllowi„g how. E vidently
it is, or we should not have m illion­
-
aires, no Carnegies, Morgans, Rock­
efellers, et id genus omne. But in
order to know w hether they made
heir fabulous wealth ju stly , we
m ust know how they m ade it. Mr.
Carnegie once exclaim ed to a news­
paper reporter, “ You m ust not infer
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use the nervous system as a psy ­ th at I made what I have m yself;
1) other goverm ental changes of their vital, m ental, social and other
chic piano , with no other
mys- other fellows made it for me.
th er peoples in the direction of a phenom ena. The first key to a
# He told the tru th . But who are
tepublic.- It would be seen and '
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a t ! co.nPlex et.t,j.-ct. A healthy mind the other fellows ? It is not to he
; h ’ a 11“ 1 3 DleVerinmfonrm ¿nd sub- “ Every event has p aren ts” ; th a t if and soul keeps clear of all these .b - supposed th at the employes in his
iy the peop e,
.
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comes I norm al and diseased states of mind, iron and steel works were all the
tance, is the only one befitting the consc.ou
ne^ o
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on
Shakespeare said wiser th an he other fellows. Senators and repre­
about in one way, it can in no
sentatives in Congress, bribed or
n an k in d .
o th e r ; and so with every other knew,
misled by him and others like him ,
We a re su c h stu ff
vital,
m
ental
and
social
feeling,
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IN G E R S O L L ’ S
into passing protection laws, were
life
thought and act. It is found that
also some of the other fellows who
Is ro u n d e d w ith a sleep.
instead of being spirits, breaths,
Last W ill and Testament for U. S.
helped him .
gasses, auras, entities,
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So many persons con trib u ted to
You notice, of course that the of any kind, they are, in fact, pro “ w hat dream s are m ade of ’ we are Mr. Carnegie’s success, th a t we may
power
roRCH gives every week an Ingersoll ceHf4es of and in the protoplasm ic astonished
»¡. wmuphcu at
« v their explaining
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say th a t society as a whole is re­
election, worth far more th an a bod
,e8 them
selves, and concom i-!— we have found WHAT WE are . The
Domes
uiciij.'ci
sponsible. Long before Mr. C arne­
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n t h other
p r t?<v/x
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lf is is
f o u found
n d b v by analysis
tan
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of
the
nervous
Ego,
the
fear’s subscription every time.
gie came upon the stage of action,
His laat address we are g iv in g ... changes of the same. T hus the old l0 be of the sam e nature as dream s
His last address we are giving in
the laws and custom s of political
arts now. It was really liis last view of spirit-entity is entirely and . ln its origin, hut it 1» not at a ll lik e
society were preparing the way for
rill and testam ent to us all, and as certainly replaced by a “ process of them subjective , tran sito ry and
such as he, and all he had to do
ucli we should consider and treas- concom itant correlation.”
purposeless and useless.
was to walk therein. I here is no­
ire it. Never before was he so
2. For instance take the dream
I t is the conscioi s, continuous
thing strange in the fact th a t he
lever, w itty, deep and decisive.
phenom ena which are tiiechief louu- and objective contact o a
our
did so, or in the other fact, th a t he
Did you note those few words dation and factors of the old relig- wondrous vital and nervous pro­
make m illions by it. O thers did
moted from it as the text of the ions.
As Paine says, “ Chrisl-
" ‘‘V h u s ^ U th e Interpreter the same. W hen society creates
C onstruction V I I ” in last T orch ? ian ity begins w ith a dream and he . .
bnrninB nidnt ol monopolies and confers privileges
’lease to com m it them to m em ory ends with a m urder,” which is not o
'e wo i ,
^ d wbereby by its laws, ratio n al people should
,s the tru th about, and the key to, a p leasant story for a healthy per- the arc- g ,
N a tu re expect to find the inevitable results
he whole Universe.
W ho has son to contem plate, so let ns turn th e m fim te and wondrous
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laid the law of correlation so beau- to old Hom er. We do D0‘ 8e‘ f a r j
¡fully as he, our p o et? “ Every ,he first book of the Iliad before the
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Event has p aren ts—n atu ral par- Greek leader, Agam em non, is tool astom s
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and theirs and theirs, is to be, a Sci- “ gome in terp reter ol dream
r b , . W .,. . . . . . H .™ o . 0 . . ™ .. .1.0 H . . . Z .» .."
how to live in the world of the real, 63).
,e tru e and the good.
Preserve this address of Inger-
,oll and read it again and again,
nd get others to do the sam e. I t
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c‘an reach this persons of great d isp arity as to
\\-e now know n u m b e rs ,-th e few of great w ealth,
m any, their victim s, grov-
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«nd th ro ’ help for it so long as the autece-
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everywhere, there are persons
calls up “ the dream ” as_a person,
hu. who can perceive such o p p o rtu n e
. • 1 ties
* ! — _ and
_ wl take
* Irra advantage
n / 1 «1 11 t if A ill
t II U1 ; <
and sends him with a r a v a g e o
hv thia discovery m ankind
of them
the said leader, out only
^ ' ’eallv^raised by it w an isola- and so we should say th a t the get-
him into more tr o n d e
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t ion of im uility tha^ is not possible i ting of m illions thereby is not an
s o a r tru e and iast chapter in the
liberal B ib le .
In
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h' “
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’ „ o r the highest
hum an m ind o r.evidence of ex trao rd in ary ability,