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John T. Watson's Anti-Evolution Statue
Clarence was born into a family with different views than society making him a freethinker willing to fight the hard cases. Clarence became a practicing lawyer in 1878, then moved to Chicago in 1887 to defend an accused murder. This case started the legacy we see today in not only legal cases but as a Public speaker, debater, and writer.
With a history of taking on difficult cases, he took on the Scopes Trail. A Man By the name John T. Scopes was in violation of Tennessee's Anti- Evolution Statue.
The Scopes trial is the original home of the quote. In the entirety of that section, he speaks of the knowledge tree from the story of Adam and Eve. He believes the church is afraid of what that tree holds so he believes “in the brain of man.”

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