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The renowned lawyer Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) was also an impassioned defender of intellectual freedom, individual liberties, and social justice.
In these wide-ranging essays, Darrow attacks beliefs in the inerrancy of the Bible, the immortality of the soul, miracles, and heaven as being completely at odds with human experience and science. The life best lived, Darrow contends, is one that is ruled by reason, uncluttered by dogmatism, and aided by compassion for our fellow human beings.
Essays include: "Why I Am An Agnostic," "The Myth of the Soul," "Absurdities of the Bible," "Voltaire," and "The Skeleton in the Closet."
In these wide-ranging essays, Darrow attacks beliefs in the inerrancy of the Bible, the immortality of the soul, miracles, and heaven as being completely at odds with human experience and science. The life best lived, Darrow contends, is one that is ruled by reason, uncluttered by dogmatism, and aided by compassion for our fellow human beings.
Essays include: "Why I Am An Agnostic," "The Myth of the Soul," "Absurdities of the Bible," "Voltaire," and "The Skeleton in the Closet."
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CLARENCE SEWARD DARROW was born in Kinsman, Ohio, the fifth of eight children, on April 18, 1857. Darrow's parents, who were freethinkers and abolitionists, instilled in their son a fierce independence and a devotion to learning. Following a year of study at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, and another at the University of Michigan law school, Darrow was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1878. After prac-ticing in Ohio for nine years, Darrow moved with his wife and son in 1887 to Chicago, where he was appointed cor-poration counsel to the City of Chicago and later attorney for the Chicago and North Western Railway. He resigned this position in 1894 to devote himself exclusively to labor and political cases.
Darrow became the defense lawyer in several famous trials, including those of William D. "Big Bill" Haywood, accused of a plot to assassinate the former Idaho governor, Frank?B.?Steunenberg (1907); of the McNamara brothers, charged with trying to blow up the Los Angeles?Times?building (l 911); and of schoolteacher John Scopes, on trial in 1925 for defying the Tennessee state law forbidding the teaching of evolution. In what became known as the "Monkey" trial, Darrow's opposing counsel was William Jennings Bryan, thrice unsuccessful candidate for the presidency and, in Darrow's eyes, the champion of religious bigotry. Applying his remarkable oratorical powers, Darrow exposed Bryan as an ignoramus and a fanatic; nevertheless, Scopes was convicted and ordered to pay a nominal fine, although the conviction was later reversed.
Darrow's philosophy was deterministic: human beings are?controlled by their feelings, emotions, and desires; this is the result of heredity and environment. Darrow rejected the con-cept of inherent sinfulness, arguing that people should be treated with compassion rather than with vindictiveness. A popular lecturer and writer, Darrow, in several works, in-cluding those in the Blue Book series, decried religious dog-matism and a fundamentalist interpretation of the scriptures, while upholding the values of individual liberty and social justice.
Clarence Darrow died in Chicago on March 13, 1938. Clarence Darrow's published works include the novel?An?Eye for an Eye?(1905),?Crime: Its Cause and Treatment?(1922), and?The Story of My Life?(1932).
Darrow became the defense lawyer in several famous trials, including those of William D. "Big Bill" Haywood, accused of a plot to assassinate the former Idaho governor, Frank?B.?Steunenberg (1907); of the McNamara brothers, charged with trying to blow up the Los Angeles?Times?building (l 911); and of schoolteacher John Scopes, on trial in 1925 for defying the Tennessee state law forbidding the teaching of evolution. In what became known as the "Monkey" trial, Darrow's opposing counsel was William Jennings Bryan, thrice unsuccessful candidate for the presidency and, in Darrow's eyes, the champion of religious bigotry. Applying his remarkable oratorical powers, Darrow exposed Bryan as an ignoramus and a fanatic; nevertheless, Scopes was convicted and ordered to pay a nominal fine, although the conviction was later reversed.
Darrow's philosophy was deterministic: human beings are?controlled by their feelings, emotions, and desires; this is the result of heredity and environment. Darrow rejected the con-cept of inherent sinfulness, arguing that people should be treated with compassion rather than with vindictiveness. A popular lecturer and writer, Darrow, in several works, in-cluding those in the Blue Book series, decried religious dog-matism and a fundamentalist interpretation of the scriptures, while upholding the values of individual liberty and social justice.
Clarence Darrow died in Chicago on March 13, 1938. Clarence Darrow's published works include the novel?An?Eye for an Eye?(1905),?Crime: Its Cause and Treatment?(1922), and?The Story of My Life?(1932).
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