Yes. The individual human mind. In a child's power to master the multiplication table,...
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[challenged to say if he considers anything holy]
Henry Drummond:
Yes. The individual human mind. In a child's power to master the multiplication table, there is more sanctity than in all your shouted "amens" and "holy holies" and "hosannas." An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters.
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The individual human mind
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In a child's power to master the multiplication table
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there is more sanctity than in all your shouted amens
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and holy holies and hosannas
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An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral
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And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle
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than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters
Clip duration: 30 seconds
Views: 372
Timestamp in movie: 01h 38m 03s
Uploaded: 27 November, 2022
Genres: biography, drama, history
Summary: Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
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00:15 I don't swear just for the hell of it
00:09 I do not think about things I do not think about
00:36 Colonel Drummond
00:13 You're the stranger
00:31 Which is hungrier
00:36 Don't you understand the meaning of what happened here...
00:21 I do hateful things for which people love me
00:15 You're not supposed to say Hell
00:08 We're growing a strange crop of agnostics this year
00:07 He's the only man I know who can strut sitting down
00:17 Is that the way of things
00:07 He that sups with the devil must have a long spoon
00:13 But your client is wrong
00:08 The Bible is a book
00:58 Youth can be so pure
00:07 Those are the boobs that make our laws
00:10 Welcome to Hillsboro sir
00:37 Don't you see what's happening
00:06 You're about to get a haircut
00:21 Drummond and I have worked side by side in many battles for...