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The Trial of the Century
William jennings bryan died in his sleep five days after the scopes trial. It was as if fending off clarence darrow had sapped the very life out of him. Even though darrow lost, the trial did with a c l ou wanted. progressives worried about fundamentalists. But what had the trial actually shown? That a gulf was growing between believers and sceptics. contempt is not progress or enlightenment, it's just dumb as culture war.
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