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Excerpt from War Prisoners I am not certain whether I shall please many of you in my view of this subject. Anyhow, I mean to discuss it honestly with myself, and I am not interested in whether anybody accepts my views or not. If they accept them, I have more responsibility, because the views may be wrong. I want to discuss this subject from the standpoint of man, as he is, not as he will be under the socialistic commonwealth or any other ide...

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The renowned lawyer Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) was also an impassioned defender of intellectual freedom, individual liberties, and social justice.In these wide-ranging essays, Darrow attacks beliefs in the inerrancy of the Bible, the immortality of the soul, miracles, and heaven as being completely at odds with human experience and science. The life best lived, Darrow contends, is one that is ruled by reason, uncluttered by dogmatism, and aid...

The remarkable behaviors of grasshoppers, beetles, bluebottles, spiders, cabbage caterpillars, and glow-worms, studied by the eminent French entomologist, J. Henri Fabre, are reflected upon by Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938), the turn of the century lawyer and social activist. Fabre's work laid the foundation for virtually all subsequent work in the field of entomology.

This discussion treats an important question that has received no specific and thorough examination elsewhere, notwithstanding is gravity. Mr. Darrow is probably the foremost of the American representatives of the non-resistance theory, and his case is stated in these pages more pointedly and forcibly than in any of his published works. The arguments launched against Mr. Darrow will, I think, satisfy the opponents of the non-resistance philoso...