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answer all Mr. Darrow‘s questions at once. I want the world to know that this man who does not believe in God is using a Tennessee court to cast slurs on Him…‖ …… (para 42) The judge used his gavel to quell the hubbub and adjourned court until next day. (para 43) Bryan stood forlornly alone. My heart went out to the old warrior as spectators pushed by him to shake Darrow‘s hand. stride: quick, long steps, v., n., . He turned abruptly and strode off the corridor. He walked with long strides. The country has made enormous strides politically but not economically. punctuate: to interrupt at intervals . The silence of the night was punctuated by the distant rumble of traffic. He punctuated his solemn remarks with a few wellchosen jokes. He did not bother to punctuate the telegraph message. repel: to drive back。 repulse。 feel sick about … . to repel an attack You should try to repel the thought of mitting suicide. Her untidy appearance repelled me. His long, rough beard repels children. Slur: Any remark or action that harms or is meant to harm someone‘s reputation。 reproach, stigma, , 詆毀,破壞名譽(yù), . Don‘t slur my brother‘s reputation. The neighbors talked about each other with ugly slurs. The rumors cast a slur upon my good name. Part III(4548) The PostTrial Happenings What happened to the protagonists in the story? the verdict was guilty Para. 45 my conviction ?victorious defeat‘ The oratorical storm that Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone blew up in the little court in Dayton swept like a fresh wind through the schools and legislative offices of the United States, bringing in its wake a new climate of intellectual and academic freedom that has grown with the passing years. hail : a. to salute, greet with enthusiastic approval The crowd hailed the victor. The people lined the streets to hail the returning heroes. b. To praise publicly Mark Twain was hailed as the greatest American humorist of his day. In the wake of…: to follow Seagulls followed in the wake of the ship. We saw a whale following in the wake of the ship. The car brings in its wake a black smoke. President Nixon resigned in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Many troubles follow in the wake of war. Diseases often follow in the wake of flood./ The flood brings in its wake diseases Two questions ? Is evolution an absolute truth? Is fundamentalism a ridiculous fake thesis? Does the trial conclude the fundamentalism forever? ? Is science necessarily an opponent to religion? ? Unreconcilable conflict between them? Science and Religion ? The scientific method can teach us nothing else beyond how facts are related to and conditioned by, each other. ? …knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be ? Objective knowledge provides us with powerful instruments for the achievements of certain ends, but the ultimate goal itself and the longing to reach it must e from another source. Science and Religion ? Mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations, and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to perform in the social life of man. ? Free and responsible development of the individual Science and Religion ? Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be. ? Religion, on the other hand, deals only with evaluations of human thought and action: it cannot justifiably speak of facts and relationships between facts ? A conflict between Church and the doctrines of Galileo and Darwin intervention on the part of religion into the sphere of science