BRYAN’S LAST WORD ON EVOLUTION: HIS POSTHUMOUS SPEECH PREPARED FOR THE FAMOUS SCOPES TRIAL AT DAYTON, TENN. Chicago: The Bible Institute Colportage Association, 826 North La Salle Street. Price 10 cents.
This is the speech Mr Bryan intended delivering at the famous Dayton trial, but which he was prevented from doing through the early termination of the case. It is a speech that was well worthy of the occasion, and highly creditable to the well-known oratorical powers of the great American publicist. There is a fine rever-
ent bowing to Christ’s supreme authority and His written Word. In a masterly way he exposes the wild wanderings of the opposing counsel, Mr Darrow, the well-known agnostic criminal lawyer, in the notorious Chicago murder trial, in which the sons of two millionaires were involved. Mr Darrow daringly offered in defence of that hideous crime the plea that the perpetrators were to be excused because one of his clients had imbibed the brutal and demoralising evolutionary teaching of Nietzsche. Mr Scopes was rather unfortunate in having Mr Darrow, with that speech of his on record, as his defender in this trial, and Mr Bryan drives home the point in a disconcerting way for the defending counsel.