# Quote — Edward Larson, Summer for the Gods

> Already, the three main tactics for attacking the antievolution measure had emerged: the defense of individual freedom, an appeal to scientific authority, and a mocking ridicule of fundamentalists and biblical literalism; later, they became the three prongs of the Scopes defense.

- Author: [Edward Larson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-larson.md)
- Book: [Summer for the Gods](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-larson/summer-for-the-gods.md)
- Page: 52
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-larson/summer-for-the-gods/already-the-three

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> By the 1940s, a fundamentalist subculture had formed in the United States, with a creationist scientific establishment of its own.

p. 233 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-larson/summer-for-the-gods/by-the-1940s.md)

> “I never yet found any conservative lawyer who, at the beginning, wanted to undertake a case which might reflect discredit on him. When it turns out differently and there seems to be some publicity or honor to be had, then offers of assistance come from all over the country.”

p. 209 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-larson/summer-for-the-gods/i-never-yet.md)

> Stanford university president David Starr Jordan, an eminent evolutionary biologist who later volunteered to aid in the legal defense of John Scopes, spoke for many academics when he dismissed traditional Protestant revivalism as “simply a form of drunkenness no more worthy of respect than the drunkenness that lies in the gutter!”

p. 41 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-larson/summer-for-the-gods/stanford-university-president.md)