Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-15
THE DEVIL OF DARKNESS
ln the Light of EvOiuti0n-Lectur
BY Mr. Gerald Massey.


BY NIr. Gerald Massey.
AT Berkley hall yesterday afternoon,
Gerald Massey delivered lecture on the
Devil of Darkness in the Light of ESo-
luton" He spoke as follows: There are
two things which have come to look
upon as constituting the objectionable
sin of the father and mother against the
helpless innocence of infancy. The one
is allowing their little children to run the
risk of blood poisoning such as was once
suffered by a child of mine-from tie
filthy fraud of vaccination. The other is
in permitting the mind and soul of their
children to be inoculated with
the still more fatal virus of the old
false orthodox dogmas and delusions,
by allowing them to believe that the
fables of ancient mythology are the
sacred and solely true "Word of God"
If they are found in the Hebrew scrip
lures, the one book of the religiously
ignorant. Generation after generation
we learn, unlearn and Ielearn the same
lying, legendary lore, and it takes the
latter half of all ones lifetime to throw
off the mass of corrupting error instilled
into US during the earlier half, even when
we do break out and slough it off in
mental eruption, and have to find our
selves in utter rebellion against things as
they are. Unfortunately the mass OF
people never get rid of this infection,
nor of the desire to give their disease to
others.
The argument of the non.theiet is
continually directed and limited to the
false premises and inadequate conclu-
sions of the orthodox, which is as easy
and cheap to pulverize as it is to pummel
| sack of straw. We can know nothing
OF an omnipotent God who plays fast
and loose with the conditions of the law.
Were it so, all human foothold and trust
| in the stability of the universe would be
gone. Education would be impossible.
We are at first taught by means of the
fixed facts, in order that we may found
on solid earth, not on the ever-shifting
sands-with prayers for God to catch
them now and again, and keep them
quiet, for Gods sake
rather think it would be more just to
reply that there is not sufficient man
hood and intelligence in you to put an
end to the evils you deplore! 81, God !
gave the earth for all )" and you permit
the initial iniquity Of absolute private
| property in land, whereby one may
clutch county all to himself, and few
may claim a country. You allow the
rights of property to overrule and over
ride the interests OF humanity If your
national property is doubling every
thirty years, 80 is the national pau
perism!
You allow the zone" to pos g the
soil, and the thousands to be driven off
and exported as refuse, in order that
game may multiply, and the human par
asites Of earth may pursue their savage
sport 1 also hold their other cowardly
doctrine, that of vicarious sacrifice, to be
the real, if indirect, cause Of vivisection.
1t would have been impossible for ma
ton of animal-lovers like the English to
tolerate the vivisection of the dog, for
example, mans first friend in the will
derness of the early world, his ally in
the work of civilization, unless the mo-
tor nerve and conscience of the race had
been paralyzed by the curare of vicari-
GUS suffering.
The bea tly cruelties OF it's practition-
ers, which are faunted in our faces with
intent to terrorize the conscience of others,
could not have been permitted by men
who had not been indoctrinated by the
worship OF vivisecting deity whose vic
tim was his own son! And these my
riads of slowly murdered dogs and rab-
bits, cats and frogs, cannot have the con-
ISOLATION Of knowing that vivisection is sal
walton, and they are survivors, of the
human race from the consequence Of its
own crimes against nature and sins
against itself. 1t is impossible to estab-
lish the throne of eternal justice by the
violation OF all that is human, as is fruit
lessly attempted on the ground of the
orthodox creed.
| 1t is impossible for you to save or serve
humanity by sacrificing all that consti-
tutes the escence of humanity, as is done
in this portrayal of a vivisecting deity,
who is the responsible operator, with his
own son az the suffering victim Bos-
ton Herald.