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THE agitation in the United States over the teaching of evolution is attracting such widespread interest that it has been proposed to build a stadium to accommodate twenty thousand people for the trial of J. T. Scopes, a Tennessee High School science teacher, for having taught the truth of evolution in defiance of the State law. The trial is to open on July 10. The charge of the judge to the grand jury began by reading the first chapter of Genesis as the account of creation which Tennessee teachers must adopt. He pointed out that part of the value of education is mental discipline, and that flagrant defiance of the law by the school authorities would not be a wholesome influence in the State. He insisted that the integrity of the law must be upheld. The main issue, however, will be decided by the Federal Court in its decision as to the right of a State to prohibit the teaching of fundamental philosophical principles.
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Evolution and Intellectual Freedom. Nature 116, 69–83 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116069a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/116069a0