Best Selling Books by Clarence DARROW

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Before there were the famous books of Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens, and Harris on atheism, there was Clarence Darrow''s brilliant witty essays on his disbelief in God, Christianity, and the Bible. This book contains several of Darrow''s most witty and penetrating essays on his non-belief. Highly entertaining. As Dr. Andrea Diem-Lane explains: When Spencer Tracy, playing Clarence Darrow in the movie Inherit the Wind, takes the Bible in one hand and On Origin of Species in the other and clasps them together side by side to illustrate how science and religion can work together, one is led to assume that Darrow was indeed a theist evolutionist. But was he? Hollywood''s portrayal of him in this classic film is obviously suspect. Instead of supporting theism, Darrow''s own writings clearly show his strong support for agnosticism (literally, "not knowing"). This philosophical position--the argument that one cannot know ultimate or metaphysical truths or even whether there are any--fits in line with the teachings of Socrates, Hume, Darwin, Einstein and many other philosophers and scientists today. Science is inherently agnostic. As a discipline it tends to only investigate those claims that can, in theory, be tested and proven. Indeed, Karl Popper, a well known philosopher and historian of science, has stressed that for something to be of scientific merit it must be potentially falsifiable. In other words, science doesn''t work by proving itself right, but rather by demonstrating where, when, and how it can potentially be wrong. In this way, it can actually correct prior assumptions and make further testable hypothesis, which can either withstand rational scrutiny or be shown to be lacking in sufficient evidence. When a metaphysical (above or beyond the empirical world) claim is made, however, there is usually no way to test it and prove beyond a reasonable doubt that such a thing actually exists. Believing it to be so is insufficient in the realm of science. Naturally, a question arises: Does the theory of evolution necessitate an agnostic worldview? Or, can one believe in theism and still be an evolutionist such as Kenneth Miller, author of Finding Darwin''s God? Yes, one can personally believe in any religious idea one wishes to and even connect such to a scientific paradigm. But saying this also means that one could attach any sort of nonsense to science and try to suggest that they are not in conflict. I could, for instance, say that believing in Gumby and Pokey as Divine Avatars (famous animated claymation figures popular on American television) doesn''t conflict with Darwin''s idea of natural selection. But making such a banal statement doesn''t then justify claiming that one''s chosen religious belief is a legitimate scientific position that warrants equal treatment in a Biology course. As Carl Sagan rightly said, "extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof." And since religion, in general, is either unwilling or unable to provide such proofs to the scientific community, it is perhaps inevitable that the only honest position one can hold and still be true to the spirit of science is, in fact, agnosticism. Clarence Darrow, even though not trained as a scientist but rather as a lawyer, realized this truth early on and became a tireless champion of allowing the "unknowing" postulate in science to permeate into one''s daily life. As he himself so wittingly observed, "An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths. Everyone is an agnostic as to the beliefs or creeds they do not accept. Catholics are agnostic to the Protestant creeds, and the Protestants are agnostic to the Catholic creed. Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge."

Facing Life Fearlessly - Clarence Darrow - The Pessimistic Versus The Optimistic View of Life - Report of a lecture delivered at the University of Chicago, under the auspices of the Poetry Club, and the Liberal Club; revised by Mr. Darrow. I had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Mr. A.E. Housman in the Summer of 1927. I spent two hours with him, and before that I had been to the home of Thomas Hardy. Mr. Hardy told me how much he thought of Housman, before I visited Housman; and Housman was a frequent visitor at the Hardy home. Their ideas of life were very much alike; they were what the orthodox people and the Rotary Clubs would call pessimistic. They didn''t live on pipe dreams; they took the universe as they found it, and man as they found him. They tried to see what beauty there was in each of them, but didn''t close their eyes to the misery and maladjustments of either the universe or man, because they ware realists, honest, thorough, and fearless. Hardy himself had received the censure of all the good people of England and the world, who, in spite of that, bought his books. They all condemned him when he wrote his ''Tess;'' so he determined not to write any more prose. He thought that people probably were not intelligent enough to appreciate him; certainly not his viewpoint, and he didn''t wish to waste his time on them. Housman''s viewpoint is much the same, as all of you know. He has written very little. You can read all he has written in two hours, and less than that; but everything is exquisitely finished. met him he was in his study in Cambridge. He is a professor of Latin. I can''t Imagine anythINg more useless than that -- unless it be Greek! He has been called the greatest Latin scholar in the world, and he seemed to take some pride in his Latin; not so much in his poetry. He said he didn''t write poetry except when he felt he had to, it was always hard work for him, although some of the things he wrote very quickly; but as a rule he spent a great deal of time on most of them.

"This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of its varied activity. I have endeavored to present the latest scientific thought and investigation bearing upon the question of human conduct." Among lawyers, none are unilaterally venerated like Clarence Darrow. The Ohio attorney rose to international fame as the defense attorney in two Trials of the Century; both the Leopold and Loeb case and the Scopes Monkey Trial. In this quality reissue of Crime: Its Cause and Treatment, Darrow analyzes and interprets the essence and origins of both crime and the mind of the criminal, both male and female.. He discusses events in the background of criminals that lead them to crime, as well as the natural phenomena and psychological faults that can cause antisocial behavior. In this seminal work of criminology, Darrow accesses crime in a similar manner in which doctors treat disease by identifying its symptoms and causes. PREFACE 1. WHAT IS CRIME? 2. PURPOSE OF PUNISHMENT 3. RESPONSIBILITY FOR CRIME 4. ENVIRONMENT 5. ADJUSTING HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT 6. PSYCHOLOGY OF CRIMINAL CONDUCT 7. THE CRIMINAL 8. THE FEMALE CRIMINAL 9. JUVENILE CRIMINALS 10. HOMICIDE 11. SEX CRIMES 12. ROBBERY AND BURGLARY 13. MAN AS A PREDATORY ANIMAL 14. CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY 15. ATTITUDE OF THE CRIMINAL 16. THE LAW AND THE CRIMINAL 17. REPEALING LAWS 18. IS CRIME INCREASING? 19. MEDICAL EXPERTS 20. PUNISHMENT 21. THE EFFECT OF PUNISHMENT ON OTHERS 22. EVOLUTION OF PUNISHMENT 23. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT 24. STIGMATA OF THE CRIMINAL 25. THE GOOD IN CRIMINALS 26. THE DEFECTIVE AND INSANE 27. SOCIAL CONTROL 28. INDUSTRIALISM AND CRIME 29. WAR AND CRIME 30. CIVILIZATION AND CRIME 31. THE CONVICT 32. ISOLATION AND STERILIZATION 33. CRIME, DISEASE AND ACCIDENT 34. LUCK AND CHANCE 35. PARDONS AND PAROLES 36. REMEDIES

1. his debate with Judge Alfred Talley.p.1-62. 2. his closing argument in the loeb-Leopold Trial.p. 63-184.

Correspondence, diaries, writings and photographs of May Walden, mainly dating from 1892 to 1959. About half the collection consists of correspondence, the bulk between Walden and her daughter, Katharine Kerr Moore, detailing domestic life during the Depression. There are letters to Walden and to Charles H. Kerr relating to their political interests; significant correspondents include William Jennings Bryan, James Russell Lowell, Frank W. Taussig, Clarence Darrow, Helen Keller, and Margaret Sanger. Also brief notes from Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edward Everett Hale, Alan Lomax, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Margaret Chase Smith. Among Walden''s works are her diaries, 1913-1956, and her essays on various topics including birth control, the Socialist home, votes for women, and the sanitary collapsible cup used as a campaign novelty by Eugene Debs in 1912 (sample cup included). There are photographs of the family and of Eugene Debs, Jack London (with Coxey''s Army), Max Hayes, Robert Howe, Seymour Stedman, and Ernest Untermann.