THE DAYTON TRIAL.
A - N.Z. table A.-.-oriul ion. J PROGRESS OF TRIAL. NEW YORK. July Hi. Scope’s trial is producing heated scenes between the. opposing counsel. Bryan, one counsel lor the prosecution, declared more than half the scientists throughout the cuiintry do not believe in a. personal God. or ill immortality. The Leopold Loch ease was a sample of what that doctrine was doing through the universities. It made murderers. These people hud no right to teach children to scoff at the religion of their ancestors. After reading from Darwin’s ‘'Descent of Man", he said it traced a man’s ascent through the (lid World monkeys, not even lruni American monkeys. Here wc have our glorious pedigree and every child is supposed to substitute it for the Bible. General McKenzie, another prosecuting counsel, declared they -wanted to place words in God’s mouth that he made some kind ol protoplasm and. threw it into the ocean and said if you wait, six thousand years 1 will make something out of you.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1925, Page 2
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169THE DAYTON TRIAL. Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1925, Page 2
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