Day 2
Darrow argues law is unconstitutional
Darrow - If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it
a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime
to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a
crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session
you may ban books and the newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against
Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own
religion upon the minds of men. If you can do one you can do the other.
Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding
and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers,tomorrow
the private. The next day the preachers and the lectures, the magazines,
the books, the newspapers. After while, your honor, it is the setting of
man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating
drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth century
when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence
and enlightenment and culture to the human mind.
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