PERHONAL IMMORTALITY
SILVERTON JOURNAL
If anything it> absurd—if <ything
can be absurd it 1» th« wide spread
belief that when men and women die
that they are »till alive. A very «mail
power of reasoning ought to teach
every man and every woman that life
is up-to-date, with NEW, MODERN MACHINERY. and death are opposite condition»—
We do “QUALITY" job printing promptly and neatly. the living man ii conscious, and the
dead man la unconacioua. The preva­
lent delusion that the death of man ia
a continuation of hia personality, had
. its origin in the brain of our aavage
i ancestors, and thia superstition ha»
come down to us through heredity and
, tradition, and ia now one ut the
I «trongeat citadel» of a heartier'-
li ne» t hood that conatantly prey upon
' the peace und happiness of the human
i race.
When thia citadel ia overthrown by
| selene« and Reason the power of
priestcraft will be broken, arid the hu­
man family will ceae to lie enslave 1
by an unscrupulous ecclesiastical hie­
rarchy which haa been man’» moat
deadly enemy through all the cheer­
less and bloody centtPiea. Th‘a per­
sistent and pernicious superstition is
the foundation of Mohametaniam and
i Christianity, both of which have red­
dened the earth with b'ood, and both
’ of which are stupendous barriers to
the further progress of humanity, anu
their power for evil can never be
broken until Rationalism drives from
the brain of man this ancient and
nancies» belief in personal immor­
talTy.
If any thing ia true— if anything can
be true—no human being ever had
any existence on this earth until he
or site wao conceived in a mother’s
womb; prenatal personality is absurd
—it is unthinkable—it is inconceiv­
able, and a» inconceivability is the
very highest test of the falsity of a
proposition we can confidently alii rm
that no human being ever had any
personal existence until their body
was organised.
Uns doctrine of the incarnation of
a preexisting human spirit floating
aronud in space is not only foolish but
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preposterous, and can not be enter­
tained by any sane mind, because
It is better than Linotyping
the terms of such a proposition can
not be framed into a mental concept.
This doctrine Had ita origin during
the infancy of the human race before
Reason had ful'y dawned and when
the whole world was supposed to be
tilled with spirits eagerly waiting to
be clothed with flesh and blood, and
it is still taught by mystics and
dreamers who- have no knowledge
whatever of the laws of nature.
If the preelistence of personality
and the incarnation of spirits is ab­
surd, unthinkable and inconceivable,
Beautiful Womanhood
Joyful Childhood
wiiat shall we say of post mortem per­
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sonality ? Reason and science both
“All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.”—Gibbon.
compel us to say that personal pre­
existence and post mortem personal
existence must stand or fall together;
if a bodily organization was the be­
ginning of a personal existence which
every sane man knows Is true, the dis­
organization and disintegration of the
Man’s liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes
body must be the end of personal
the curse of his neighbors.”—Farror.
existence.
Happy Old Age
Noble Manhood
This is the uinversa1 experience of
the
human race; this is the teaching
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of science; this is a necessity of ra­
tional thought; thia is the voice of
Reason, and Reason is our only guide
in our search for truth.
When men and women learn the fun­
damental truth that the universe em­
bodies all causes and all effects, and
that Evolution and Dissolution are
eternal laws of Nature, a belief in
personal immortality wi'l disappear,
and priests will cease to ride on the
weary shoulders of the toiling millions
and peace and happiness will till the
earth.
Personal immortality is a super­
stition of vast financial value to the
priesthood, and as priestcraft is man’s
deadliest enemy it is the duty of ail
good men and all good women to give
freely of their time, money and enei-
gy for the overthrow of the pernicious
delusion of personal immortality,
which enables a heartless priesthood
to make slaves of the human family.
The overthrow of this insane super­
stition is iniinitely more important
to the-people of the United States than
banks and tariffs and treaties, for
when priestcraft ceases to rule man­
kind a golden cestus of clasped hands
will encircle the earth, and the angel
of peace will spread her beautiful
white wings over a happy world.
T. J. Bowles, M. D.
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1914 OREGON DRY 1914
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building and a small lot with go d
building a'ready for business can be
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only $500. The location is on a prin­
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which have appeared in the Journal, we could sell at 25
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As a rule the great majority of the
Bohemian» ar inclined to free-thought.
That is chiefly due to the fact that
on account of the Catholic religion
they were deprived of their kingdom
and property in Europe. Have you
ever read the "History of Bohem-a?”
We have two radical paper» in our
language; one published in Chicago
and the other in Omaha.
Joseph M. Pe»ek.
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A much wider circulation of the
ideas of the abler writers on Social
Science and general Reform topics
can be achieved by giving only the
pith of their writings and at low
prices, a» most people are too busy to
read long articles and too tired to di­
gest them.
When the present so-called com-
petetive state of society is superseded
oy a san«- one where all will be com­
fortable and contended, and the com­
ing generations have been freed from
tieiief in God and immortality—the
cause» of ail the misery in the world
—then every one will be occupied a
reasonable time each day to earn
proper food, clothing and shelter, and
all will be able to read and write.
Now about one quarter of our popula­
tion are illiterate and are incapable of
thought.
C. P. Somerby.
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Christians claim their Bibi« to be
the greatest promoter of morality in
existence; and the majority of them
use it in their arguments against
drunkenness. Yet the Bible forbids it
in only four places.
Jeremiah 25, 27-28 says, the Lord
commanded his people to “drink and
b« drunken, and spew and fall.” Deut. |
14-26 declares that God’s children
shall spend their money for wine or
strong drink. Genesis 49, 11-12 makes
Jacob say, in blessing his children,
that their “eyes shall be read with
wine.” Second Samuel 6, 19 says, Da­
vid when moving the “ark of the
Lord,” gave his people wine in
abundance. Paul prohibited water
and recommended wine, 1. Timothy 6,
23. Christ's first miracle was to turn
waler into wine for those who were
already drunk, John 2, 3-10. Read
your Bible, Christians!
Charles F. Randall.
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Animals, the non-human beings,
are much like human beirgs. They
eat and sleep, seek pleasure and try to
avoid pain, cling vigorous'y to life,
experience health and disease, get sea­
sick, suffer hunger and thirst, co­
operate with each other, build homes,
reproduce themselves, love and pro­
vide for their children, contend
against enemies, learn iron experi­
ence, remember and forget, have
friends, favorites and pastimes, appre­
ciate kindness, commit crimes, are af­
fected by alcohol, strychnine and other
drugs, see, hear, smell, taste and feel,
are industrious, provident, manifest
ingenuity, individuality, fidelty, affec­
tion, heroism, self-control, fear, love,
hate, pride, suspicion, jealousy, joy,
reason, resentment, selfishness, curi­
osity, memory, imagination, remorse,
as humans do. — Prof. J. Howaid in
“Dumb Animals.”
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Lemarck first did the eminent ser­
vice of arousing attention to the prob­
ability of all change in the organic
as well as the inorganic world, being
the result of law and not of miracu­
lous interposition. His views were
published in 1601-9-15. He upholds
the doctrine that a'1 species, including
man, are decented from other species;
led to his conclusions by the gradual
change of species, difficulty of dis­
tinguishing species and varieties, the
almost perfect gradation of froms in
certain groups and analogy of do­
mestic production. The means of
modification he attributed to direct
action of the physical conditions of
life, the crossing of already existing
forms, and much to use and disuse,
that is, the effects of habit, as the
long neck of the giraffe was developed
by browsing on the branches of trees.
From Charles Darvin in “Origin of
Species.”
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Since all vegetation, anima's and
human beings are composed of proto­
plasm-cells, the question arises, where
and how did the first protoplasm-cell
originate, capable of growing and
multiplying. A brief lesson deducted
from Alexander’s “Dynamic Theory”
will explain how and where the origin
was possib'e.
During the Azoic Age this earth
was just a ball of fiery melted matter
like the sun. We have no means of
knowing how long that lasted. But
fin-’ly the mass begun to cool, so a
thin crust formed of granite and other
heavy rock types. Outside this crust
the atmosphere must have been very
hot and thick with all kinds of gases;
gradually the vapor cooled, part con­
densing into hot water holding in so­
lution immense quantities of all the
elements in nature, and this liquid
mass settled down, covering the crust.
We know, when materials are dis-
so'ved by heat, their forces are more
active than when cold, and different
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kinds unite making various com­
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above the crust, as it cooled, must
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combine. Some would become larger,
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stronger than others, and the smaller
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would be attracted to them and ab­
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sorbed in them. The larger would
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push out processes or fibres In attract­
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ing the smaller. Gravity would make
the center of a nuceus. Attraction in
opposite directions might divide one
into two cells. Thus the protoplasm­
cells must have originated, the begin­ OREGON SOCIALIST
ning of all vegetable and animal life
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Eliza Mowry Bliven.
United States Senator—B. F. Ramp
Governor—W. J. Smith.
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Representatives: E. W. Ross, S’’-
verton; Fred Haa k, Marion; L. D.
Ratliff, Salem; Allen Hutcheon, Sa­
lem, F. J. Von Behren, Aumsville.
Sheriff—J. E. Blazer, Silverton.
Clerk—T. Y. McClellen, Turner. Ra-
corder—Ly’!th M. Cannon, Salem.
Treasurer—R. R. Ryan, Salem. Com­
missioner,—F. C. Ramp, Brooks. Cor­
oner—Bernard Pehr, Salem. Survey­
or—Jean B. Hoss, Salem.
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