Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays

The renowned lawyer Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) was also an impassioned defender of intellectual freedom, individual liberties, and social justice. In these wide-ranging essays, Darrow attacks beliefs in the inerrancy of the Bible, the immortality of the soul, miracles, and heaven as being completely at odds with human experience and science. The life best lived, Darrow contends, is one that is ruled by reason, uncluttered by dogmatism, and aided by compassion for our fellow human beings. Essays include: “Why I Am an Agnostic,” “The Myth of the Soul,” “Absurdities of the Bible,” “Voltaire,” and “The Skeleton in the Closet.”