At the town school, Cates was teaching his Science class. He read Darwin's Origins of Species to his class. Even though it is against the law, Cates feels that he did no wrong. When Rachel tells Cates that everybody believes that he did a bad thing, Cates responds with, "It isn't as simple as that. Good or bad, black or white, night or day. Do you know, at the top of the world the twilight is six months long"(9). In this he is meaning that just because a couple of people think he is wrong it does not mean that he is.

During the trial a young boy from C

Drummond, Cates' lawyer, disagrees with Brady. He feels that everyone "has the right to think"(71). The judge tells Drummond that "the right to think is not on trial here"(71). Drummond, in return says, "the right to think is very much on trial"(72). Brady then exclaims, "A man is on trial"(72). "A thinking man! And he is threatened with fine and imprisonment because he chooses to speak what he thinks,"(72), argues Drummond. Cates is being looked down upon and punished simply because he will not conform to the rest of the town.

ates' class is called to the stand. After Brady questions the boy about what he was told the day Cates' read about Darwin, he continues by saying, "these Bible-haters, these Evil-utionists, are brewers of poison. I tell you, if this law is not upheld, this boy will become one of a generation, shorn of its faith by the teaching of Godless science! But if the full penalty of

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