The Nature Of Man
April, 1997
During the Twenties, America debated the nature of man and woman--in drugstores, speakeasies, classrooms and courtrooms.Were we descended from apes, as Charles Darwin maintained? Did the animal instinct--lust--govern all aspects of our life, as Sigmund Freud suggested? Science challenged the fundamentalist vision of a higher order.Wasn't man created by God, in God's image? To teach that he was descended from apes was nothing short of blasphemy. In 1925 Tennessee passed a law forbidding the teach...
