William Jennings Bryan: Speech at the Scopes Trial

Glossary

• class …order terms of biological classification used here more generally to say that humans could not have descended from apes
• counsel legal representative
• diagram an illustration in Hunter’s Civic Biology, showing in very broad terms what was then known about evolutionary family trees
• mock court a court whose rulings have no force of law, suggesting that such a court in this instance would be a mockery of justice
• Mr. Hays Arthur Garfield Hays, an attorney for the defense
• Mr. Hunter George William Hunter, whose Civic Biology, originally published in 1914, was the textbook from which Scopes had taught his classes on evolution
• revealed religion religions such as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam that involve a direct personal relationship with a god whose nature is “revealed” through scriptures
• statute law
• they cannot find man The diagram in Hunter’s biology textbook showed mammals as a group but had no special designation for Homo sapiens within that group