The copper country evening news., 1896-04-13

| which Il organized Tor the purpose Oh Dot
tering the condition Of mankind regard
less Of creed or lack OF IL, desires 10 extent
to you an invitation TO preach for us some
Sunday morning in the near future on the
subject Of your views as TO what the Chris
tian church should do and how"
In accepting the invitation Mr.. Ingersoll
said, 81 was much pleased with the spirit
Of intellectual hospitality Of your letter,
and what say, II anything. to your peo-
pie will be in the same spirit Of kindness
and candor."
/ Colonel Ingersolls address, which was
given in Hooley's theater, was as follows:
There Is no darkness but ignorance.
Every human being Is a necessary prod
not Of conditions and every one Is born
| with defects for which he cannot be held
responsible. Nature seems to care nothing
| for the individual, nothing for the species.
Life pursuing life, and, in It's turn. pur-
| sued by death, presses to the snow line Of
| the possible, and every form Of life, Of In
stinct, thought and action Is fixed and de-
| termined by conditions, by countless ante
| cedent and coexisting facts. The present
Is the child, and the necessary child, Of all
the past and the mother OF all the future.
Every human being longs to be happy,
to satisfy the wants OF the body with food,
with roof and raiment, and TO feed the
hunger Of the mind, according To his ca
pacity, with love, wisdom, philosophy, art
and song.
The wants Of the savage are few, but
with civilization the wants Of the body in
crease, the intellectual horizon widens,
and tho brain demands more and more.
The savage feels. but scarcely thinks.
The passion of the savage is uninfluepced
by his thought, while the thought of the
philosopher Is uninfluenced by passion.
Children have wants and passions before
they are capable OF reasoning. So in the
infancy OF the race wants and passions
dominate.
Nature, generous and heartless, extrava-
CANT and misery as she is, is our mother
and our only teacher, and she is also the
deceiver OF men. Above her we cannot rise,
below her we cannot fall In her we find
the seed and soil Of all that Is good, OF all
that Is evil. Nature originates nourishes,
preserves and destroys.
Good deeds bear fruit and in the fruit
are seeds that In their turn bear fruit and
seeds. Great thoughts are never lost, and
words of kindness do not perish from the
earth.
Every brain Is n field where nature sows
the seeds OF thought and the crop depends
upon the soil.
Every flower that gives its fragrance to
the wandering air leaves its influence on
the soul Of man. The wheel and swoop Of
the winged creatures of the air suggest the
flowing lines of subtle art. The roar and
murmur OF the restless sea, the cataract's
solemn chant the thunder's voice tho
happy babble Of the brook, the whispering
leaves, the thrilling notes of mating birds
the signing winds, taught man to pour his
heart In song and gave voice TO grief and
hope, TO love and death.
In all that Is, in mountain range and
billowed plain, in winding stream and
desert sand, In cloud and star, in snow
and rain, In calm and storm, in night and
day, In woods and wales, in all the colors
OF divided light, in all there is Of growth
and life, decay and death, In all that flies
and floats and swims, in all that moves,
In all the forms and qualities OF things,
man found the seeds and symbols of his
thoughts and all that man has wrought
becomes part OF natures self, forming
the lives Of those TO be. The marbles Of
the Greeks, like strains Of music, suggest
the perfect and teach the melody Of life.
The great poems, paintings, inventions
theories and PHILOSOPHERS enlarge and mold
the mind OF man. All that Is is natu-
raj. All Is naturally produced. Beyond
the horizon OF the natural man cannot 90.
Yet for many ages man In all directions
has relied upon and sincerely believed In
the existence Of the supernatural He did
not believe In the uniformity Of nature.
lie had no conception OF cause and effect,
OF the indestructibility Of force.
In medicine he believed in charms,
magic, amVlets and incantations. 1t never
occurred to the savage that diseases were
natural
In chemistry he sought for the elixir Of
life, for tho philosophers stone, and for
some way Of changing the baser metals
into gold.
In mechanics he searched for perpetual
motion, believing that he, by some curious
combination OF levers, could produce, could
create force.
In government he found the source of
authority In the will OF the supernatural. /
For many centuries his only conception
OF morality was the idea of obedience, not |
10 facts rs they exist in nature, but to the |
supposed command Of some being superior |
to nature. During all these years religion |
consisted in the praise and worship Of the |
invisible and infinite, of some vast and in |
comprehensive power--tbat Is to say, OF |
The supernatural.
BY experience, by experiment, possibly |
by accident, man found that some diseases |
could he cured by natural means; that he |
could be relieved In many instances OF pain
10y certain kinds OF leaves or bark.
This was the beginning Gradually bis
confidence increased In the direction Of
the natural and began to decrease in
charms and amulets. The war was wagod
Tor many centuries, but the natural gained
The victory. Now we know that all dis
Bases are naturally produced, and that all
all curatives, act In accordance
with the facts In nature. Now we know
hat charms, magic, amulets and incanta-
lions are just as useless In the practice Of
as they would he In solving a
problem In mathematics We now know
hat there arc no supernatural remedies
In chemistry the war was long and bit
ier. but we now no longer seek for the
,lixir Of life, and no one Is trying to find
he philosophers stone We are satisfied
hat there Is nothing supernatural In all
he realm OK chemistry. We know that
Substances are always true to their ma
lures; we know that Just 10 many atoms
of one substance will unite with Just so
many OF another. The miraculous has de.
parted from chemistry; In that science
there is no magic, no caprice and no pos
sible use for the supernatural. We are snt.
isfied that there can be no change; that wa
pan absolutely rely on the uniformity OF
nature; that the attraction of gravity will
always remain the same, and wo fesl that
we know this as certainiy - We know