In 1925 Joseph Wood Krutch, later an influential literary scholar, was a young reporter covering the Scopes Trial. The following excerpt presents his impressions of Darrow's courtroom presence and of Dayton, Tennessee: "In Tennessee, as I said in a previous article, intellectual courage is almost dead. Whatever is done in the name of patriotism or religion may consider itself as exempt from any but the most respectful criticism, and anything like a vigorous liberal opinion seemed as" unreal and remote in Dayton as the Daytonian psychology seems to a man who has spent his life in intellectual society. Even the State University had given the acquiescence of silence, but he, who came from afar, was a man who dared to do what no Tennessean had done — hold up a mirror that she might see herself as the world saw her — and the effect was...