Daily Republican., 1889-09-20
POoR-UNBELIEvING.

~ Dohtuu, tnOst tlme SINCE ROBERT
q. lngersoll delivered the address at the
funeral Of Horace Beaver, editor Of the
Investigation. The services were held ut
Paine Memorial Hall, which was filled
with eminent Free Thinkers from all
parts of New England.
Colonel Ingersoll eaid: "Horace Sea-
yer was pioneer, torch-bearer, q to!ler
In that great field we call the world;
worker for his fellow. men. At the end
of bis task he has fallen asleep, and we
are met to tell the stofy OF his long and
useful life; to pay our tribute to his work
and worth.
"He was one who saw the dawn while
Others lived in night. He kept his face
toward the 'purpling East aud watched
the coming OF tho blessed day. He
always sought for light. His object was
to know, TO find reason for his faith, O
fact on which to build. In superstition's
sands he sought the gems OF truth; In
superstition's night he looked for stars.
"Born In New England, reared amid
the cruel tuperstitlons of his age and
time, he lad the manhood and the cour-
age TO investigate, aud he had the good
ness and the courage to tell his honest
thought. He was always kind, and
sought to win the confidence OF lnen by
sympatby and love. There was no taint
or touch of malice in his blood. To
him, his fellows did not seem depraved;
they were not wholly bad; there was
within the heart OF each the seeds OF
good. He knew that back Of every
thought and act were forces uncon-
trolled."
HIS CHARACTERISTICS
"Ile wisely said: circumstances fur
Dish the seeds Of good and evil and man
is but the soil in which they grow He
fought the creed ana loved the man. He
pitied those who feared and shuddered
at the thought OF death, who dwelt In
darkness and in dread. TIE religion of
his day filled h's heart with horror. He
was kind, compassionate and tender, and
could not TALL upon his knees before a
cruel and reyengeiul creed.
"Horace Seaver was a good, loyal cIti.
zen of tie neutral republic, a believer in
intellectual hospitality, ono who knew
that bigotry IL born Of ignorance and
fear, the provlncialism of the brain. He
did not belong to the tribe, or to the
nation, but to the human race. Els sym-
pathy was wide as want, and like the sky
bent above the suffering world. This
man lad that superb thing which we Call
m raj courage, courage in its highest
form. lie knew that / is thoughts were
not the thoughts OF othera, that he was
with the few, and that where one would
take his side thoufands would be his
eager foes. He knew that wealth would
scorn and cultured ignorance defide, and
that all believers 10 the cieede, buttressld
by law and custom, would hurl the mis-
silee OF revenge and hate. He knew that
lies, like snakes, would fill the pathway
of his life, and yet he told his honest
thought, told II without hatred and
without contempt, told 1t As it really
was.
Sand SO, through all his days, his
heart was sound aud stainless to the core.
When he enlisted in the army whose ban
ner is light the honest iuvestis ator was
looked upon as lost and curst, and even
Christian criminals held him in con-
tempt. The believing embezzler, the
orthodox wiie-beater-avent the murderer
lifted his bloody hand and thanked G cd
that on bis soul there was no stain of un-
belief.
HIS FAITH REWARDED.
"Horace Seaver pursued his way. He
and wrought as best he could in
and want. He knew the day
would come. He lived to be rewarded |
for bis toil-to see most OF tho laws re-
pealed that had made outcasts of the |
noblest, the wiiest and the best. lie |
lived To see the foremost preachers OF the |
world sttack the sacred creeds. lie lived |
10 see the sciences released from super |
stitlon's clutch. He lived to see the |
orthodox theologlan take his place with |
the professor OF the black art, the fortune
teller and astrologer. He lived to see
the best and greatest of the world accept |
bis tlIought-to see the theologians dis
placed by the great true priests OF nature
by Humboldt and Darwin, by Huxley
md Haeckel.
lfe tho, l,n orld was chaHged. The railway,
he steamship, the telegraph made ali
nations neighbors. Countless inventions
iave made the luxuries of the past the
necessities Of to-day. Life has been en-
iched and men ennobled. The geologlst
las read the records OF frost and flame,
If wind and rain; the astronomer has told
lie story Of the stars, the biologist has
las sought the germ OF life, and In every
department. of knowledge tie torch of
cience sheds Its sacred light. The an.
lent creeds have grown absurd; the
MIRACLES are small and mean; the In
pired Book is filed with fables told to
,lease childish world, and the dogma
# eternal pain now shocks the heart and
rain.
THE BRUNO MONUMENT.
"He lived to sec a monument unveiled
o Bruno in the city of Rome, to Giordano
'runo, that great man, who $50 years ago
ed death by fire for having pro-
lal med the truths that since have flled