By H.L. Mencken
ISBN-10: 1612190316
ISBN-13: 9781612190310
Fiercely clever, scathingly sincere, and hysterically humorous, H.L. Mencken’s insurance of the Scopes Monkey Trial so galvanized the kingdom that it will definitely encouraged a Broadway play and the vintage Hollywood motion picture Inherit the Wind.
Mencken’s no-nonsense sensibility remains to be fascinating: his perceptive rendering of the court docket drama; his piercing portrayals of key figures Scopes, Clarence Darrow, and William Jennings Bryan; his ferocious tackle the fundamentalist tradition surrounding it all—including a raucous middle of the night journey into the woods to witness a mystery “holy curler” service.
Shockingly, those experiences have by no means been collected jointly right into a booklet in their own—until now.
A non secular Orgy In Tennessee includes all of Mencken’s studies for The Baltimore sunlight, The Nation, and The American Mercury. It even contains his insurance of Bryan’s demise simply days after the trial—an obituary so withering Mencken was once pressured through his editors to rewrite it, angering him and top him to rewrite it all over again in a 3rd model even much less forgiving than the 1st. All 3 types are incorporated, as is an entire transcript of the trial’s so much mythical trade: Darrow’s blistering cross-examination of Bryan.
With the increase of “intelligent design,” H.L. Mencken’s paintings hasn't ever appeared extra unnervingly timely—or undying.
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Wheeler meet in a saloon under a Baptist church, and drink Brüderschaft in a mixture of Clos Vougeot and Coca-Cola. But not before. For the two parties, it must be manifest, are at the farthermost poles of difference, and leaning out into space. If one of them is right at all, then the other is wrong altogether. There can be no honest compromise between them. Either Genesis embodies a mathematically accurate statement of what took place during the week of June 3, 4004 BC or Genesis is not actually the Word of God.
There can be no honest compromise between them. Either Genesis embodies a mathematically accurate statement of what took place during the week of June 3, 4004 BC or Genesis is not actually the Word of God. If the former alternative be accepted, then all of modern science is nonsense; if the latter, then evangelical Christianity is nonsense. This fact must be apparent, I believe, to everyone who has given sober and prayerful thought to the controversy. It should be especially apparent to those who now try to talk it away.
It can cure diabetes, find lost pocketbooks and restrain husbands from beating their wives. But is prayer made any more efficacious by giving a circus first? Coming to this thought, Dayton begins to sweat. The town, I confess, greatly surprised me. I expected to find a squalid Southern village, with darkies snoozing on the horse-blocks, pigs rooting under the houses and the inhabitants full of hookworm and malaria. * The houses are surrounded by pretty gardens, with cool green lawns and stately trees.