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The Centennial of the Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial

Tim Madigan on the creation and the evolution of a legend.

The prominent philosopher Lewis White Beck (1913-1997), a leading authority on Kant’s work, was born in Griffin, Georgia, in the heart of the Bible Belt. Like many Americans of that era, he had vivid memories of a seminal event in the mid-Nineteen Twenties: the trial of John T. Scopes for the crime of teaching evolution in the state of Tennessee. Beck writes:

In 1925, I was awakened from my dogmatic slumber by newspaper accounts of the ‘Monkey Trial’. John T.

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