Trials of the Monkey

Authors: Matthew Chapman

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“I came down here to see if anything has changed in seventy-five years and the longer I’m here, the more apparent it becomes that little has. There must be Daytonians who believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution, but I’ve yet to meet one. There must be people here who don’t believe in God, but I haven’t met one of them either. In fact, it seems to me that the religious and political mood of the town is worse now than it was then. In Dayton in 1925, as well as the unchanging Fluffs and Mikes and p...reachers and literalists, you also had George Rappleyea and John Scopes, and even those who disagreed with them did so with a certain regard for good manners and fair play. Scopes went swimming with William Jennings Bryan Jr., one of his prosecutors; Darrow stayed at the house of one of the witnesses against his client; and the whole event was cooked up in an amiable, exploratory fashion. Now such a thing would be unthinkable. There’s been a narrowing of views and a widening of the division between them.MoreLess Read More Read Less