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About Torch of reason. (Silverton, Oregon) 1896-1903 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1902)
T H E TORCH OF REASON, SIL V E R T O N , OREGON, MARCH 27, E. M. 302 (1902.) Condorcet, and others, the idea of For the Torch of Reason. men in our business recently ob progress in hum an history, was for tained a decision th at fixed, not S O C IA L IS M II. only the wages and the hours, but Lemuria. the New and True Paradise of the first time grasped, and in 1845-59 the name and outline of BY BEGINNER. also the am ount of work of each Old, Where Man and Sociology the Science was worked out by A u --------- m an per day. As soon as a trade Originated. guste Comte, whom John Fiske General Birney is right. Com- has organized its union, it takes justly calls the “ C opernicus of So- pulsory arbitration will not work, full advantage of the law to carry These Articles are w ritten to ciology .” and as he says we roiht “ go slow.” any dispute into court, which show th at Liberalism and Science, The editor of the T orch has it all means for us the beginning of a But it was not until the great instead of being destructive (as in a nutshell in the issue of March process of bleeding. Wages may charged) are actually constructing progress in Biology under Darwin, 6: “ The good of the Republic de- then rise for a tim e, but eventually a new and splendid world and Haeckel and others, th at the solid cides how far Socialism, th a t is, in- ftH business is ruined. Hom e for M an ; and th at it is high foundation of the Science as pre “ ‘In no colony, not even in New tim e for us to leave the old d ila p i sented by Herlxert Spencer and his tegration, or A narchy, th at is, in compeers and successors, was laid, dividuality, is to be carried into Zealand, has business suffered more dations, and begin therein our new W hen it began to be seen how that practice.” through the in d u strial legislation, house-warm ing. We have com Sociality was the need that gath- happy mean m ust he found, than in Victoria, where there are pared the old astronom y, physics, ered and held the cells in the first Every governm ent under heaven no courts of arb itratio n , but wages- chem istry, dynam ics, biology, and m any-celled anim als (the m etazoa) has contained both elem ents. The boards th at serve the same pur- lastly psychology, with the new sci and so upw ard and onward through most u lt ra anarchy under which P<>8«- Here the m anufacturer as- ences; with clear and clean result all the wondrous forms, organs and men could live for a brief time, 'serts th a t since these boards were I hat the new has sim ply constructed functions of the countless species of would contain some measure of in- instituted his business is v irtually the old out of existence and taken anim al life,__then the evolution of tegration; and individuality could 1 directed by them , he being no lon- their place. m ankind from the anthropoid troop «ever be entirely banished from m aster in his own house. T here is now, however, one other or tribe to the Religions, the m ight even the most radical socialism 1 hese boards prescribe the mini- grand objective Science left for us iest Em pire, the grander Republic, conceivable. Our Republic, though mum rate of wages. It is unjust to follow our construction process and the final “ Republic of Man- affording great scope for individu- toward employee as well as em into, and th a t is the out-flower, k in d ,” was unrolled as within the »'ity has alw ays contained a large ployer th a t all workmen should re key, solution, the last, and the won law’s of growth, progress and know element of integration or collectism ceive the sam e w’ages for the same der of all Science, S ociology !—the able relations. Then reciprocating or paternalism ,as our public schools, time w hether they are capable or Science of the association of M an integration and individuation of e b'., hear witness. Go too far in in- not, diligent and conscientious, or kind, discovered and partly worked organs and functions were found to tegration and grave evils im m edi lazy and indifferent. On account out only within the last century. be as true of all hum an societies, ately appear. Push on to com plete of the high m inim um rate, the em- It is the fault of theology th at as of the “ Colonial Sea N ettle” d e Socialism and there will be chaos • ployer now finds it impossible to this noble, th is saving Science, our scribed by Haeckel, and pictured and bloodshed, followed by despot- pay the skilled workman accord true R edeemer , was not caught ing to his capacity, and the in te lli by Dr. Paul Carus, in his “ Soul of lsm. onto and realized before. The M an,” (p. 241). Then was found Speaking of the New Zealand ex- gent em ployee who was urged to curse of theology is th a t it is social the tru th of the sam e law in all! perim ent, General Birney s a y s: greater exertions by the hope of ly bad anarchy: It deals finally hum an economic association, a» re- “ Let us wait aw hile say oil y e a r s ’; reward, now sinks to the level of only with the individual and m s peated from Goethe, in C arey’s but a much shorter time will suf his less skillful co-w orker.’ soul. “ W hat profiteth a m an if he fice, for disastrous results appear “ The total results in A ustralasia “ Social Science.” (v o b l, p. 53.) gain the whole world and lose his already. of these legislative experim ents are Then was revealed the u tter folly own soul,” said its C hrist. Says W. Mommsen in GJ a h r such th at the advantages are more Or as the French Theolog put it : and nonsense of all th a t the Bible bücher” for December, 1901: “ After than counterbalanced by the d isad and Theology had said about the a trial of six years, the succphs of vantages, ami thoughtful working O u to u s les ho m in es v o u t, a u c u n e ue origin, ancient history, and the dis these [com pulsory arb itratio n ] laws men who have the welfare of their v o n t ensem ble. W h ere all m en m u s t go, each m u s t go tribution, fate and future of m an is seriously doubted, even by Pre- country at heart are filled with seri a lo n e . kind on this earth. It is dreadful mier Seddon, the father of the [in- ous aprehensions for the future. Because the selfish instincts are to th in k how, even up to our own itia i] bi||. The Hcale of wages, fixed The successes which have been the soul of theology it renders im d a v , th e g r e a te s t and wisest of men ¡() a period of prosperity, is in times claim ed by H. D. Lloyd have been possible any effective social or moral have been fooled by the childish ()f ¿ e pre88|OU a heavy burden, for em phatically called in question in w orkingm an energetically pro- A ustralasia. He visited the coun- co o p eratio n and reform ation of stories about Adam and Eve, the m ankind, and is the real parent of flood, and N o a h s children, and the jegt8 a ^air»st giving up an y th in g try two years ago when prosperity m ay have gained; ready to take was at its highest point. The other the continued poverty, waste and d e s c e n t a n d d i s t r i b u t i o n of p e o p le s misery around us. It always, even and nations from them . Bruno a(j v a n ta ge of a rise in years of pros- side is set forth in Sir W illiam Mc- was burnt for ridiculing this Bible perity, he refuses to bear his part M illan’s article in th e August No. at its best, counts from self as its cornerstone: “ Love thy neighbor Sociology and history, as well as its when evil tim es come. The e m - ! of the A ustralian ‘ Review of Re- as thyself .” “ D o unto others as Astronomy. Now open your D ar ployers, not able to lay by a suffi- views.’ This em inent A ustralian you would they should do unto win and Haeckel with th an k s that cient emergency fund to tide them statesm an holds th at the entire in- ycu .” This self-fear of God took Science has replaced and recon over periods of depression, are dustrial legislation of New Zealand the heart out of earthly life, whose structed our knowledge of the p ri threatened in their very existence, and V ictoria will soon l>ecast aside purpose then became the egoistic m al history of our race. Remem- E ither they m ust continue in the like old iron, because it m ust fall to one to escape from this “ state of her th a t the idea of social progress , face of failure or rn)JHt close their pieces of its own accord. T h a t an arm ed peace of com pulsory arb itra- p ro b atio n ” and “ vale of tears” as of verified truth , and of our worj{8 entirely. soon, and as safely as possible. e a r iiiia home , a r e th e new ati'l “ The letter of a large hide and tion is more disastrous th an a sh o rt leather concern, published in the period of strikes in spite of its ani- It was th is private and personal precious g ifts of Science . The real “ P aradise,” where the Dunedin “ S ta r,” graphically states mosities and pecuniary losses. ” relation of man to the God, world and future of theology independent human became a fact from tribal their reasons for transferring their Com petition is the keynote of the of his fellows, th a t left no place for and social anthropoids, was L e - business to Sydney, New South n atu ra l order. Even the trusts the social initiatives of A ristotle MURIA, now subm erged by the In- Wales: ‘ We live in daily and cannot evade it. Every race of and Cicero, and prevented the social dian Ocean. 1 he shores of th a t lost hourly anxiety of being cited be- plants, anim als and hum an beings, n atu re of m an, and the facts and C ontinent Haeckel visited by his fore the Conciliation and A rbitra- ¡8 its own unyielding grasp. So- laws of th eir evolution from being trips to Ceylon, In d ia, and lately, tion C ourt on account of a further cia listic attem pts to avoid it are appreciated and extended as a Sci to Insulinde. Read w hat he found, increase in wages th a t o u r men are artificial contrivances “ born to ence. W hen the light of the New in our “ Story C olum n” (in this dem anding from us, while our busi- ¿ie.” All nature proceeds by its E ra (1600), began to dawn upon T orch ), in his “ H istory of Crea- ness is utterly unable to grant any- m eans, and as Thoreau said: “ Drive m an himself, the succession of the tio n ,” and Map there, in W allace’s thing more. We furtherm ore de- N atu re with a pitchfork and generations and their constant in “ E astern Archipelago,” in Rid- cidedly refuse to em ploy union in- Mhe comes running back.” heritance from each other, excited p a th ’s “ H istory of Peoples and Na- stead of non-union men, as we are ■ renewed curiosity: and from the tions.” I ben in next T orch see forced by law to do here. . . . Read our new prem ium list, and re- < In an arb itra tio n court the work- new your subscription at once. thoughts o f Bruno, K ant, H erder, j w hat it all m eans ! CONSTRUCTION IX.
