This Date in History: Scopes Monkey Trial
Sunday April 24, 2005
April 24, 1925: John Scopes is believed to have taught his high school biology class about evolution from their text book "A Civil Biology," thus violating the Butler Act and leading to his later trial.
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Ah so “Civil Biology” was a book on evolution?
Let’s look at some quotes from the book.
“If the stock of domesticated animals can be improved upon, it is not unfair to ask if the health and vigor of the future generations of men and women on the earth might not be improved by applying to them the laws of selection.”
“the highest type of all, the Caucasians, represented by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe and America.”
these families have become parasitic on society. . . . If such people were lower animals, we would probably kill them off. . . . [W]e do have the remedy of separating the sexes in asylums or other places and in various ways preventing intermarriage and the possibilities of perpetuating such a low and degenerate race.”
Nice book.
But then again didn’t eugenics evolve from evolutions?