Clarence Darrow

Darrow, Clarence Seward - 1857–1938, American lawyer, b. Kinsman, Ohio. He first practiced law in Ashtabula, Ohio. In 1888 he moved to Chicago, where he was corporation counsel for several years and conducted the cases that the city brought to reduce transit rates. Later, as general counsel for the Chicago and Northwestern RR, he resigned (1894) to defend Eugene V. Debs and others in Read More...

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Infidels and Heretics: An Agnostic's Anthology
by Clarence Darrow, Wallace Rice. 293 pgs.

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Acknowledgment

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Introduction

I Foundation Stones

Agnosticism

"Agnosticism" Misused

Natural Selection

The Unknowable

The Unknowable

The Unknown God

An Agnostic Race

The Challenge of the Unknown

Gnostic Pride

Theology and Science

Forgotten Tools

Useless Natural Structures

Insoluble Doubt

First Principles

World-Beginnings for Children

II The Depths of Thought

No Shame in Ignorance

On the Death of a Metaphysician

Knowledge of Ignorance

Ignorance

The Baselessness of Our Ideas

Savages and Conservatives

Mind and Motion

Philosophy and Pessimism

Seekers After Truth

Change

Pantheism and Agnosticism

Dreams and Responsibility

Appearance and Reality

III Honest Doubt

The Sceptic

From Plea in Defense of Loeb and Leopold

Laws

A Summer Night

From--The Myth of the Sou

Sea-Shell Murmurs

Hope

Clover

Generation

IV Gods and Demigods

The Blow

The Carpenter's Son

Creation

The Problem of Good and Evil

God and the Devil

Hertha

Dead Gods

Aquæ Sulis

Αγνώστω + ̨ Θεῷ

Birth, Love, Death

Dei Veri Nostri

Siva, Destroyer

Lucifer's Farewell

V The Wise of Old

Job Speaks

Body and Soul

The Rival Philosophies

Seeking Philosophical Authority

From--The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Meditations of a Hindoo Prince

The Smile of All-Wisdom

From--Prometheus Unbound

From--The Apologia of Socrates

VI Priestcraft and Piety

Priestly Magic and Human Benefit

A Little Boy Lost

Religious Dogma and Government

In Harmony With Nature

Credulity

Prayer and Weather

The Truth

Providence and Causation

From--The Storms of Time

The Impercipient

The Garden of Love

Holy Willie's Prayer

Epitaph on Holy Willie

The Little Vagabond

From--The Altar of Righteousness

The Material Universe Not All

From--Mistakes of Moses

The Human Abstract

Contrite Sinners

Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous

Our Father Man

From--The Revolt of Islam

VII Creeds and Dogma

The Ancient Antagonism

The Real Conflicts

Religion and Politics

Religion and Natural Knowledge

Sensationalism and Tradition

Christianity and Buddhism

Reverence and Reason

Religion and Music

Religion as Natural

To Religion From Theology

Science and "Sin"

VIII Mores and Morals

Dogma, Religion, and Science

Chance Dogmas and Reasoned Truth

Matter Means Conditions

Confused Morality

Conscience

Conscience and the Race

Morality as Art -- And Reformers

Morality and Intelligence

Intellectual Integrity

Morals and Inquiry

Morality and Astrophysics

IX Men and Women

Evolution of Sex

Humanizing Marriage

Sex and Taboo

Sex and Sin

Quenching the Unquenchable

The Gospel of Love

X Our Humbler Brethren

Heaven

Only an Insect

Similar Cases

The Menagerie

The Fly

(A Hindoo Fable)

A Conservative

The Conqueror Worm

XI Our Father, Time

The Bourne

The Mystery

Mutability

Euthanasia

Terminus

To Age

Life

Old Folk and Morality

XII Death and Love

Illic Jacet

Epicurean

The Card-Dealer

What Matters It?

Ignorance of Death

Experience

Death and Memories

Thoughts on the Shape of the Human Body

No Longer Mourn for Me

The Great Misgiving

Sonnet

A Tribute to Ebon C. Ingersoll

The Hill

When I Am Dead, My Dearest

Fidele

XIII In Time to Come

Ulysses

Darwinism

From--The Altar of Righteousness

Poetry, Art, Religion

Possible Mental Powers

From--Things and Ideals

The Real Bible

Accept Our Universe

Vistas of the Future

From--Prometheus Unbound

From--The Ode to Liberty

Puritans and Birth-Control

Liberty

The Seven Seals

Ourselves Responsible

Liberty

Scientific Inventions Revolutionary

Cor Cordium

XIV Beyond This Life

Proof and Personality

Evidence Demanded

A Dead March

The Preacher Speaks

The Life We Live in Others

Immortality

he Pantheist's Song of Immortality

The West

The Stars

Two Sonnets

Soul and Body

Man's Cosmic Importance

Science and Death

XV The Sum of Life

Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud?

The Common Lot

Why Did I Laugh Tonight?

Laughter and Death

King Death

Falstaff's Song

Up-Hill

The Garden of Proserpine

In Articulo Mortis

Nature

Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam

The End

The Tempest

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Clarence Darrow: The Creation of an American Myth
by Richard J. Jensen, Halford R. Ryan. 336 pgs.

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Clarence Darrow, trial lawyer of the famous Scopes and Leopold/Loeb Trials, writer, debater, and lecturer who spoke for the have-nots while cultivating an image of mythic proportions, is the subject of this two-part study that first surveys Darrow's life and rhetoric and then provides authoritative texts of his important speeches along with a complete speech chronology. Jensen documents the creation and enlargement of Darrow's personal myth and provides intelligent analysis and criticism of the rhetoric.

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Foreword

I Clarence Darrow

Introduction

1: The Making of A Nonconformist

2: Schoolmaster of the Courtroom

3: The Old Lion: Defending Leopold and Loeb

Educating the Masses: Darrow in Tennessee

5: Speaking for the Poor and Weak

6: Verdicts Out of Court: Darrow as Lecturer and Writer

Ii Collected Speeches

Speech in Self-Defense Los Angeles, 1912

Speech in Defense of Leopold and Loeb Chicago, 1924

Speech at Scopes Trial: Dayton, Tennessee, 1925

Speech at Sweet Trial: Detroit, 1926

Speech at Massie Trial Honolulu 1932

Eulogy of John P. Altgeld Chicago, 1902

Address to Prisoners in Cook County Jail Chicago, 1902

Chronology of Speeches

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Great American Orators
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American Orators of the Twentieth Century: Critical Studies and Sources ("Clarence Seward Darrow (1857-1938), Lawyer, Political Activist, Author" begins on p. 87)
by Bernard K. Duffy, Halford R. Ryan. 474 pgs.

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PREFACE

An Introduction to American Political Oratory in the Twentieth Century

Spiro Theodore Agnew (1928), Thirty-ninth vice-president of the United States

Ti-Grace Atkinson (1939), Radical feminist

Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (1862-1927), U.S. senator, biographer, Pulitzer Prize winner

William Edgar Borah (1865-1940), U.S. senator

William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), Orator and statesman

James Karl Carter (1924), Thirty-ninth president of the United States

John Jay Chapman (1862-1933), Socratic gadfly

Cesar Estrada Chavez (1927), Labor leader and minority activist

Shirley Chisholm (1924), U.S. congresswoman, 1972 presidential candidate, educator

Frank Church (1924-1984), U.S. senator, Idaho

The Reverend Charles E. Coughlin (1891-1979), the voice of Royal Oak

Mario Cuomo (1932), Governor of New York

Clarence Seward Darrow (1857-1938), lawyer, political activist, author

Eugen V. Debs (1855-1926), labor spokesman and socialist presidential candidate

Everett McKinley Dirsken (1896-1969). Republican U.S. Senate minority leader, 1959-109

William Edward Burghardt Dubois (1868-1963), crusader for civil rights

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969). General of the U.S. Army and thirty-fourth president of the United States

Samuel James Ervin Jr. (1896-1985). U.S. senator from North Carolina

The Reverend Jerry Falwell (1933), pastor, Thomas Road Baptist Church, Lynchburg, VA

Gerald Rudolph Ford (1913), thirty-eighth president of the United states

Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969), preeminent preacher

Betty Friedman (1921), women's movement activist

James William Fulbright (1905), U.S. senator from Arkansas

Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), black nationalist leader

Barry Morris Goldwater: (1909) U.S. senator from Arizona and presidential candidate

Belly Graham (1918), Christian evangelist

Bily James Hargis (1925), founder and director of Christian Crusade

Jesse Alexander Helms (1922) U.S. senator from North Carolina

Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) thirty-first president of the United States

Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978), vice-president of the United States

Jesse Louis Jackson (1941), preacher, civil rights leader, and political candidate

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973), thirty-sixth president of the United States

Barbara Jordan (1936), member of Congress from Texas, public advocate

Edward Moore Kennedy (1932), U.S. senator from Massachusetts

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963), thirty-fifth president of the United States

Robert F. Kennedy (1925-108), U.S. senator from New York and U.S. attorney general

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), Baptist minister, civil rights leader

Henry Alfred Kissinger (1923) fifty-sixth U.S. secretary of state

Robert Marion La Follette, Sr. (1855-1925), governor of and U.S. senator from Wisconsin

John Lewellyn Lewis (1880-1969), labor leader

Huey Pierce Long, Jr. (1893-1935), governor of Louisiam, U.S. senator

Douglas Macarthur (1880-1964), general of the U.S. Army

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908-1957), U.S. senator from Wisconsin

Malcolm X (1925-1965) spokesman for black liberation and human rights

Richard Milhous Nixon (1913), thirty-seventh president of the United States

Ronald Reagan (1911), fortieth president of the United States

Anna Eleonor Roosevelt (1884-1962), social reformer and humanitarian

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945). thirty-second president of the United States

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), Twenty-sixth president of the United States

Anna Howard Shaw: (1847-1919). Woman suffrage orator

Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979). Roman Catholic Archbishop

Alfred Emanuel Smith (1873-1944), Governor of New York and U.S. presidential candidate

Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900-1965). U.S. statesman

Eugene Talmadge (1884-1946), Four-time governor of Georgia

Harry S. Truman (1884-1972). Thirty-third president of the United states

George Corley Wallace (1917), Spokesman for segregation

Henry Agard Wallace (1888-1965), Thirty-third vice-president of the United States

Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), Twenty-eighth president of the United States

Basic Research Sources in American Public Address

Glossary of Rhetorical Terms

Subject Index

Speaker and Speech Index

CONTRIBUTORS
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Warriors' Words: A Consideration of Language and Leadership (Chap. 3 "Clarence Darrow: Gold in the Land of Pyrite")
by Keith Spencer Felton. 196 pgs.

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Warrior's Words examines leadership in the present century by scrutinizing the oral and written communications of 15 remarkable individuals at critical periods of their lives. Drawing on the words of Mohandas Gandhi, Clarence Darrow, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Joseph McCarthy, Adlai Stevenson, and Martin Luther King, among others, the author shows how language can dramatically transform listeners into agents of change. Moreover, the author analyzes how exemplary rhetoric can promote the development of motivation, the refinement of thought, and the binding together of people into positive forces for action. This study of the use and impact of words by significant social figures will be of interest to all students of rhetoric, politics, and history.

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Series Foreword

NOTES

Acknowledgments

Introduction

NOTES

Part One: Prophets of the New Century

Assay: The Autumnal God -- The: Moral Crisis of Coming to Terms with a Postwar World, 1918-1938

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Chapter One: Let There Be Light: The Genesis of a Social Conscience in the New Century (Jane Addams and Alice Hamilton, M.D.)

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Chapter Two: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Goat's Curds and Flax, and the Wisdom of the Ages

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Chapter Three: Clarence Darrow: Gold in the Land of Pyrite

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Part Two: Voices of the Second World War

Assay: Allies in the Cause of Righteousness

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Chapter Four: Man of Munich (Neville Chamberlain)

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Chapter Five: Comes the Bully: Demagoguery as Final Solution (Adolf Hitler)

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Chapter Six: "In Their Righteous Might!"

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Part Three: Postwar Panic

Assay: Fear and Public Policy, and Voices of Rejoinder

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Chapter Seven: The Goat-Song of Joseph Raymond McCarthy: The One-Word Harangue as Chorus

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Chapter Eight: Joseph N. Welch: Indignation in Triumph

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Chapter Nine: Postwar Panic -- A Postscript: Resolution and Retribution -- The Rhetoric of Righteous Indignation

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Part Four: The Modern Epoch

Assay: Greatness Right There in the Living Room

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Chapter Ten: Polity, Poetry, and Cavea

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Chapter Eleven: King and Heir

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Chapter 12: Afterthoughts on Leadership and Language: How Does History Handle the Rhetorician?

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Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Introductory Readings in Philosophy (Chap. 26 "Crime and Free Will")
by Marcus G. Singer, Robert R. Ammerman. 378 pgs.

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Introductory Readings in Philosophy

Preface

Table of Contents

Part I the Nature and Uses of Philosophy

• I • Wisdom

• 2 • Philosophy

• 3 • the Guide of Life

Part II Logic and Philosophy of Science

• 4 • Scientific Knowledge

• 5 • Science and Human Nature

• 6 • Logic and Science

• 7 • Umbrellaology and Problematics

• 8 • Principles of Really Sound Thinking

• 9 • Truth and Validity

• 10 • Science and Hypothesis

Part III Theory of Knowledge

• 11 • of Doubt and Certitude

• 12 • Two Kinds of Knowledge

• 13 • the Fixation of Belief

• 14 • the Ethics of Belief

• 15 • is Truth Relative?

• 16 • Epistemological Skepticism

• 17 • the World We Perceive

Part IV Metaphysics

• 18 • Mind as the Cause and Disposer of All

• 19 • on Change and the Four Causes

• 20 • Teleology

• 21 • Mind and Matter

• 22 • Causation and Necessity

• 23 • Free Will

• 24 • History and Determinism

• 25 • Economic Determinism and Historical Development

• 26 • Crime and Free Will

• 27 • Modern Materialism

• 28 • a Defence of Free Will

Part V Philosophy of Religion

• 29 • the Necessary Existence of God

• 30 • Reason, Faith, and God's Existence

• 31 • on Evil and the Argument from Design

• 32 • Morality and the Belief in God

• 33 • the Will to Believe

• 34 • Faith, Belief, and Action

• 35 • Religion

• 36 • Scientific Humanism

• 37 • Religion and the Will to Believe

Part VI Ethics and Values

• 38 • on the Good

• 39 • on the Good

• 40 • Reason, Passion, and Morals

• 41 • the Categorical Imperative

• 42 • Hedonistic Utilitarianism

• 43 • Nature and Morality

• 44 • the Continuum of Ends-Means

• 45 • the Criterion of Taste

• 46 • Ethical Absolutism and Ethical Relativism

• 47 • the Context of Moral Judgment

• 48 • Can We Dispute About Tastes?

Part VII Political Philosophy

• 49 • Morality and Politics

• 50 • the Dangers of Majority Rule

• 51 • Authority and Society

• 52 • Democracy as a Way of Life

• 53 • Liberty and Equality

• 54 • Fallacies in Political Thinking

Biographical Notes

Bibliography

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Capital Punishment in the United States: A Documentary History ("Document 26: Resist Not Evil (Clarence Darrow, 1902)" begins on p. 29 and "Document 29: Is Capital Punishment a Wise Public Policy? (Clarence Darrow and Alfred J. Talley, 1924)" begins on p. 79)
by Bryan Vila , Cynthia Morris. 337 pgs.

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Both sides of the highly charged capital punishment debate in the United States are examined in this breakthrough collection of 112 key documents, arranged by historical period. The political and social aspects of the debate are represented through a wide range of documents, including congressional hearings, Supreme Court decisions, position papers, biographical accounts, and news stories. An explanatory introduction precedes each document to help readers understand how various and seemingly unrelated social, economic and political factors have impacted public attitudes, legislation, and judicial decisions pertaining to capital punishment.

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Introduction

Significant Dates in the History of Capital Punishment

Part I: Early Views on Capital Punishment: Colonial Era to Independence

Part II: The Abolition Movement Gains Ground, 1800-1917

Part III: War and Economic Depression Overshadow Capital Punishment, 1918-1959

Part IV: Capital Punishment in the Courts, 1960-1976

Part V: The Debate Begins Anew, 1977-1989

Part VI: The Death Penalty in the 1990s: Contemporary Issues

Glossary

Appendix A: Federal and State Capital Offenses in the United States

Appendix B: U.S. Executions: Colonial Times to 1995

Appendix C: Selected U.S. Supreme Court Cases

Appendix D: Capital Punishment Interest Groups and Related Organizations

Select Bibliography

Index

About the Editors
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Speaking Truth to Power: The Language of Civil Rights Litigators, in Yale Law Journal
by Herbert A. Eastman. 117 pgs.

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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
by Edward J. Larson. 328 pgs.

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----- PREFACE -----

INTRODUCTION

PART I: BEFORE . . .

Chapter One: DIGGING UP CONTROVERSY

----- Chapter Two -----: GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE

Chapter Three: IN DEFENSE OF INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY

PART II: . . . DURING . . .

Chapter Four: CHOOSING SIDES

----- Chapter Five -----: JOCKEYING FOR POSITION

Chapter Six: PRELIMINARY ROUNDS

Chapter Seven: THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY

PART III . . .: AND AFTER

Chapter Nine: RETELLING THE TALE

Chapter Ten: DISTANT ECHOES

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William Jennings Bryan: Orator of Small-Town America (Discussion of Clarence Darrow begins on p. 89)
by Donald K. Springen. 200 pgs.

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"Probably best remembered today for his The Cross of Gold' acceptance speech delivered at the 1896 Democratic national convention, and his exchange with Clarence Darrow in the 1925 Scopes Trial, Bryan's speaking brilliance went far beyond these orations, flavoring his own two presidential campaigns, his tenure as Secretary of State, and the second campaign of Woodrow Wilson. This work examines the oratory skills of Bryan, tracing and analyzing his development as a speaker, and providing the texts of important addresses that spanned much of his career." Reference & Research Book News

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Foreword

Preface

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I William Jennings Bryan

Introduction

1 The Making Of An Orator

2 Bryan As Presidential Candidate

3 Bryan as Secretary Of State

4 Reforms, Reactionaries, And the Ku Klux Klan

5 Success on The Chautauqua Circuit

6 The Scopes Trial

Conclusion

Notes

Ii Collected Speeches

The Cross of Gold

America's Mission

Lincoln as an Orator

Democracy's Deeds And Duty

Religious Liberty

Chronology of Speeches

Bibliographical Sources

Index

About the Author

Great American Orators

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