The Butler Act was a 1925 Tennessee law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the Biblical account of man's origin. It was enacted as Tennessee Code Annotated Title 49 (Education) Section 1922. The law also prevented the teaching of the evolution of man from what it referred to as lower orders of animals in place of the Biblical account.
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“He with body waged a fight,
But body won; it walks upright.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.”
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