Act 03 - 01 - Rachel
From: Inherit The Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Genre: Dramedy
Topic: Ideas, religion, evolution
Character: Female
Mr. Drummond, I hope I haven’t said anything to offend you. You see, I haven’t really thought very much. I was always afraid of what I might think – so it seemed safer not to think at all. But now I know. A thought is like a child inside out body. It has to be born. If it dies inside you, part of you dies, too! (Pointing to the book) Maybe what Mr. Darwin wrote is bad. I don’t know. Bad or good, it doesn’t make any difference. The ideas have to come out – like children. Some of ‘em healthy as a bean plant, some sickly. I think the sickly ideas die mostly, don’t you, Bert?

















