The Truth Is That Brains

Scopes Isn’t On Trial; Civilization Is On Trial.

Many Writers Claim That Nearly All Crime Is Caused By Economic Conditions, Or In Other Words That Poverty Is Practically The Whole Cause Of Crime. Endless Statistics Have Been Gathered On This Subject Which Seem To Show Conclusively That Property Crimes Are Largely The Result Of The Unequal Distribution Of Wealth. But Crime Of Any Class Cannot Be Safely Ascribed To A Single Cause. Life Is Too Complex, Heredity Is Too Variant And Imperfect, Too Many Separate Things Contribute To Human Behavior, To Make It Possible To Trace All Actions To A Single Cause.

To Be An Effective Criminal Defense Counsel, An Attorney Must Be Prepared To Be Demanding, Outrageous, Irreverent, Blasphemous, A Rogue, A Renegade, And A Hated, Isolated, And Lonely Person - Few Love A Spokesman For The Despised And The Damned.

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 Newspapers. Soon You May Set Catholic Against Protestant And Protestant Against Protestant, And Try To Foist Your Own Religion Upon The Minds Of Men.

True Patriotism Hates Injustice In Its Own Land More Than Anywhere Else.