Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its
details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is
organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic,
rid of sense and devoid of conscience. Tennessee, challenging him too
timorously and too late, now sees its courts converted into camp meetings
and its bill of rights made a mock of by its sworn officers of the law.
-- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), about the Scopes Monkey Trial
