"You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."
http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/documen ... _Vol_1.pdf
Fascinating. William Jennigs Bryan - probably a figure well known to Americans, but newly encountered by me in a completely different context, anti-evolution activism (a slightly less insane version of creationism - but only slightly). I've been recently studying the history of the theory of evolution, out of the same curiousness which made me study the history of physics long ago, and realise how prone it is to intrinsic faults of both its scientific and non-scientific mechanisms. The evolutionary theory seems even more susceptible to them, as shown by the human (and non-human) history. Why is it impossibly difficult to realise a theoretically simple QM experiment? And why is racism if we are all equal? Something is wrong with science - after Kant, or even already Newton, it detached from reality, and once it grew stronger and recruited the army of followers, came back in an attempt to replace it. In some cases it succeeded, and hence the pathologies mentioned above. Anyway, WJB fascinated me with the power of his rethorics and completeness of his believes, so I decided to learn more about him - I discovered more than i expected. Dont judge the creationist by his bible's cover! Seriously, I think WJB was on the right side...