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the principle of natural selection as ism, despair, and self-abandonment. there- is no truth, or certain conclusions temperature for the month 63 63 .
hristian M essenger , applied to mind. It creates, therefore As between two tribes, one of which follow which he has not .drawn. The Highest dailjv’80, on the 26th.
a feeling of surprise and concern that holds to the. Christian conception of general beliefs of the race in God, im Lowest daily, 54 , on the 4th.
Devoted to the cause of Primitive-'Chpsti-
those who appeal to the principle God and the future -life, and the other mortality, and retribution could n'ever ■
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T I’ eahce .
anity, and the diffusion of general in
»should
so often reject all the general holds that mafter is all and that death have’arisen if maladjusted; and as
Eola, Or., Aug. 2, 1880.
formation.
beliefs tif the race as totally baseless ; i i ends, in all, there cai>_be little doubt . well-adjusted they have the ofily mark
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to T. F. Campbell, Editor, or ' Mary lief has the highest possible warrant. + • stable forms in • the former case than if the principle be true, then those the advantages.of travel- the cultur-
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true,-ill-adjusted
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in refinement of taste or in his
But
this
means
survival
for
the
form
vive.
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'the determining principle of belief, to
Entered at the Post Office at Monmouth a»
But passing by this inconsistency, er, hence adjustment, and hence truth. find the faith of the future. — We com acquaintance with the . ways of the
second c I mh matter.
we wish to propose and consider the It .means also non-survival for the lat mend it to all Spencerians as a profit world. So far, the tramp is like a great
A New Aspect of Natural Selec
following problem ; given natural se.- ter, hence» non adjustment, and hence able subject for reflection.— The Inde many tourists—in fact, like the ma
tion.
jority of tourists.—. As a matter of fact,
lection as a unpyexsal' principal in .untruth. Even if we should allow pendent.
tl!^ average tramp enjoys scenery
mind to determine the. faith of the fu that-right action might be maintained
BY PROF. SOBDBM P, BOWXl.
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ture.
It
is
plain,
if
the
race
is
to
con
quite
as much as the average tourist;
for
a
time
without
these
beliefs,'
it
The survival of the fittest is the
Sunsets.
tinue,
then
beliefs
which
lower
and
and
he
gains more practical knowledge
must be allowed that when purely
grestdrey which, in the hands of our
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from'
his
travelfor the tramp coin-------
enfeeble
either
individual
or
social
Tins
is
the
way
the
new
editor
of
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held, they are powerful adjuncts of
■'advanced scientists- has unlocked so
life
must
finally
be
eliminated
;
and
monly
has
his. eye on the country, he
theCuUj'omia
Advocate
gives
an
artist
hope, happiness, ami good conduct.
many of the mysteries of mind and or
those
beliefs
on
the
other
hand.
which
'
passes,
and
on the people he tueets,—-
friend
devoted
to
brilliant
"Sunsets
Hence they will always have an ad
ganization. Mr. Darwin has familiar-.
lead
to
more
and
fuller
life
for
both
for
selfish
considerations,
if for nothing'
his
first
experience
with
V.
’
estern
vantage over Any system - which at
ized#is with it in its application to or-
the
individual
and
society
must
gain,
more,
—
while
,
the
tourist'more
fre--
sunsets
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tempts to ignore them. In the long
. ganisms, and Mr. Spencer has empha
the
human
middle
themselves.
Oth
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Well
we
do
not
know
that
we
have
quently
looks
to
hiâ
accommodations
run, this advantage must tell by root
sized its significance in psychology.
erwise, the fittest would not survive, ing out all oppusitioft.
anything better in the way of suasetsy of travel, and is .anxibus to make an
The latter has built up an entiie sys
which
would.be
contrary
to
the
hy
We-rpight continue this argument, but when it comes to fog, that is our i ¡impression on others rather than, to - 4
tem of mental science on this concep
Travel
tion Mind itself he views as an ad pothesis. We must bear in mind, too and show that New Testament Chris-s. forte, . We can putvnp mor.- f«g to the gain arty impressions of them.
square
inch
than'any
spot
tm
earth
.
does
not
of
itself
give
any
love
tor
justment of inner relations, to outer that in this theory there can be no , tianity must be the faith of the future
..
ncry,
or
any
desire
after
knowledge
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relations, and timo;- thoughts are ad question of absolute truth, but only of' ¡f natural selectiomis Fo determine our except London.
survival;
or
if
there
be
any
absolute
beliefs.
”
Let
any
person
accept
in
We
went
through
the
G
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Gat - ' ThatJ.ve And that desire must exist
justed which lead to survival. In
within -one's -self at home, or it will
this way natural - Jection is brought truthjit is reyealed only through sur good faith Christ as his teacher ami ■ with the niost extravagant hopes op
I i me "-it away from home And .....i
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into play in the mental realn
Those vival. But here the embarrassing fact master, and there is no doubt that seeing things^ the oc<-an, th-
those
who have'it at home will find '
beings whose thoughts ape ill-adjusted comes out that the new views, if true, I SUcK a person will be more valuable in. the ships, .the seabird*-, the golden j
more
enjoyment
in the little glimpse
- to the nature of things must speedily ; must necessarily be eliminated, as not I every relation of life. He will be a light shimmering over the rolling i
i adjusted to the end of survival ; and fbetter father, or husband, or son, or waves, the.—well, what; we did see from the window of tITfc upper room
collide with reality and perish. Only
those organisms cm possibly survive, if not adjusted, then by the« terms of .neighbor, or citizen. His inner life, was an old lady crawling into her in the city, of a neighbor's garden, or
of the vines over a porch across the
whose inner relations or thoughts are the theory, they are not true. Com- too, will take a higher tone, both in its berth, seasick, and th^, fog so dense
way, or of a bit of cloud scenery „down
adjusted to outer relations or things. pare theism and atheism. The belief aims and its satisfactions. Again, let I that it seemed difficult^to g-.-t through
the
open street at sunset, ami they
Hence, the adjusted survive, and by ,in a righteous Judge of all the earth , any community honestly adopt the it ¡—and the deck of our vessel. We
will
learn more of human nature in
heredity their mental tendencie^jftre. has an undoubted value of society and teachings of Christ, and the knotiest-i heard the scieechj^’ a fog horn, and
^¡^^^“TEeTUghest ifiT-rmJT problems of political economy" "will our own steam whistle, and that is the study of the traits of tlreir immC-
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integrated and transmitted. Tn this
diate.’ acquaintances, or in their; read
way inatincts, beliefs and forms of valuable satisfactions of the individual solve themselves. The threatening what we heard. We saw a streâk.of
ing, than is gained by most persons
spring
directly
from
it,
and
as
an
idea
specters
which
disturb
our'
social
the
sea
we
were
running
in.
and
.Sant*
laws of thoughts arise. As such, they
who have had several sea-ous in Eu
express in a short-hand-way, the con- it is the great support of righteous peace will vanish. As a belief, Chris- 1 Cruz after we ran into it; but coming |
rope and have traversed the American ___
ness
in
private
and
public
action.
The
tianity
furnishes
the
best
possible
back
from
Monterey
-we
made
up
for
ditions of survival^ This is the gist
atheist would deny this; but having platform'for both personal and social the lost time, and had a good view of ! continent in its length and breadth.
of Mr Spencer's psychology.
And of those who go away from home
We have no intention of disputing denied God, he does not stop at deny action. And being true as a fact and ocean an'd shore.
with the love of beauty and the desire
ing
anything
which
stands
in
his
way.
a
great
wojjd-forçe,
natural
selection
O,
friepd
of-
ours,
the
sun
dues
not
the principle of natural selection in
for knowledge in their minds, the ones
We
cal!
his
attention
to
the
fact
that
shows
that
it
must
finally
displace
not
set
out
here.
r
mind; but rather to pdfat outcome of
who gain most are, as a rule, not the
atheistic
saints
are
very
rare
appear
only
all
other
religions,
but
all
irréli
It
goes
early
to
bed
and
covers
up.
its prominent'bearings upon the faith
ones
who travel farthest, but those,
ances,
and
are
generally
explicable
by
gions,
as
well.
Atheism,
materialism,
In
the
morning
it
gets
up
its
night
of the future. Mr. ^Spencer in his
perhaps,
who settle down quietly in a
the
environment.
Whenever
we
hear
agnosticism
must
vanish,
because
they
gown,
and
does
not
put
in
an
appear
*' Data of Ethics ” has given us a
lovely
spot
among the mountains or
of
an
atheistic
tribe,
we
know
that
it
do
not
lead
to
the
highest
and
fullest
ance
until
after
breakfast.
glimpse of a millennium which is to
by
the
sea-side,
and look out on nature
is
in
the
pre-human
stage
of
develop
personal
and
social
life.
Relatively
to
Here
we
ride
down
town
on
a
thing
> result from the principle, He points
in its ever-fresh and ever-changeful
ment.
It
is
beyond
question
that
the
Christianityj^hey
lead
to
non-surviv-
that
runs
itself.
We
do
not
want
any
' out- that its inevitable outcome must
moods, with an appreciation of all that
be to produce a race of men who will be actual conscience of men finds its chief al, and hence are unadjusted, and hence sunsets, while !we have that, aud Den
they see, and a purpose of learning.all 4
stay
ii
the
belief
in
God.
It
is
equal
are
false.
And,
as
those
who
appeal
nis
Kearney
’
s
set.
”
so adjusted to their enivironment that
the lessons that are set before them. If
they shall find their chief happiness in ly unquestionable, to common 'sense most to natural selection are atheistic
you
cannot'travel in these midsummer
that
to
destroy
the
belief
would
lead
Weather
Reporter
Jlily,
1880.
and
materialists,
it
looks
much
as
if
work, and who will be. as eager to do
yays; if.j'ou must restat your city
to
a
very
general
destruction
of
moral
they
were'to
be
hoisted
with
their
own
their work as they now are to get
During July, 188o, there were 2 home, or at one place away from home
their wages. In the long run, the and social order—at least, among the petard. Modem atheism has been
days
during which rain fell, -*nd 0 25 —thank God that you can gain, just ”
rabble.
Indeed,
it
is
whispered
that
based
mainly
on
the
claim
that
natu-
lazy, the shiftless, and the unduly
in. of waler, 18 clear days, and “tt wher§ you are. more of the‘lessons of
the
private
life
of
maffy
of
the
advanc
al
selection
can
produce
adaptations
selfish will be eliminated, and the
ed thinkers already shows certain ego- without any designing intelligence; cloudy days, other than those on truth and . beauty than the tramp or
thousand years of peace will begin.
the tourist who expects'to acquire all
But it is to be regretted that Mr. curean tendencies and a relaxation of and now it appears that the same which rain fell. __ .
that
he thinks worth living for l>y
The
mean
temperature
for
„
the
moral
principle.
But
such
a
state
principal is at last to root out athe
Spencer has not considered the bear
simply
moving on.— S. S. Timex.
would
mean
non^nrvival,-and
hence
month
was
65.10°.
Highest
daily
ism.
ings of the principle on the beliefs ot
New, to the average disciple of nat mean temperature for the month 78°,
non-adjustment,
and
hence
untruth.
’ the future. Indeed, a certain incon
ural selection all this will seem bizar on the 15th. Lowest daily mean 55°,
—The New York Tribune says;
sistency is observable in the writings Natural selection, there, can Only take
re and even absurd. Natural selec on the 10th. •
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The
readiest way for a mediocre man
the
direction
of
rooting
out
atheistic
of all the theorists concerning the ap
tion is not to be use<F in such way.
Mean temperature for the month at to gain notoriety is to proclaim him
beliefs
and
confirming
theistic
faith.
plication of natural selection to belief.
We cannot stop even with agnosticism The unpractised reader, on the other 2 o’clock p . M. 77 25°.
self an infidel and attack the Bible,
They are all ready to apply it to the
hand, will probably .miss the point
Highest record of thermometer for His blows may-be as a hen’s pecking,
for
this
is
only
another
phrase
of
athe
laws of merely formal thinking, and
entirely.
For the enlightenmeht, the month 94’, at 2 o’clock p. M, on but they are sure to attract notice be
when we ask a ieason for the superior ism. Nothing short of the Christian
therefore, of all whom it may concern, the 15th. Lowest thermometer 52°, cause of the holy and tender regard in
conception
of
God
can
give
the
idea
cogency of these laws, they tell us that
wo point out that our present concern at 7 o’clock A. M., on the 28th.
which the object he assails is held by
a universal experience must' result in its full power and lead to the best re
The
prevailing
w
inds
for
the
month
is
not
with
'the
truth
or
falsehood
of
thy
noblest part of the race.”
universal laws of thought But from sults. Behold then, natural selection
natural
selection
in
belief,
but
with
its
were
from
the
North
during
27
days,
—Never threaten. Seldom scold.
this it would follow that in a general working toward Christian theism I
implications as a principle. And we in South 3 days, N. W. 1 day.
A
similar
argument
is
possible
with
Refuse
firmly. Consent cordially.
experience, must have a very high
sist that, if Mr. Spencer’s claim is
During
July,
1879,
there
were
2
reference
to
immortality.
Any
view
Seldom
find
fault. Commend often.
probability. No belief can become
rainy
days
sound
that
our
beliefs
express
only
and
.92
in.
of
water,
18
which
limits
our
life
to
earthly
exis
Do
not
hurry.
Do not worry. Avoid
general which is not adjusted to reali-
clear and 11 cloudy deys. Mean sarcasm.
the
conditions
of
survival,
then
either
tence
ends
sooner
or
later,
in
pessim-
r-
■ tj. This is a necessary inference from
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