Resist Not Evil: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Resist Not Evil, credited to Clarence Darrow, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Resist Not Evil by Clarence Darrow. Read in English by Martha H. Weller. Clarence Darrow, perhaps best known as the defense attorney for John Scopes in the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, had a long career defending controversial cases and advocating for social justice. His experiences working within the justice system led him to question its underlying precepts. He held that punishment, with its associated violence and cruelty and no consideration of the circumstances of the so-called criminal, only serves to perpetuate human misery and does nothing to lessen crime. This work, Resist Not Evil, outlines in high oratory and irrefutable logic the flaws in the justice system. The title refers to the bible verse Matthew 5:39 where Jesus instructs his followers to not retaliate against those who wrong them, but to respond with love and forgiveness, even if it means more suffering. - Summary by M. Weller

Recording facts

• Recording title: Resist Not Evil
• Author credits: Clarence Darrow
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 3:21:56

Catalogue topics

• punishment
• non-violence
• justice system
• causes of crime

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 2:35
2. 01 - Chapter 1. The Nature of the State — 10:43
3. 02 - Chapter 2. Armies and Navies — 15:58
4. 03 - Chapter 3. The Purpose of Armies — 9:06
5. 04 - Chapter 4. Civil Government — 12:52
6. 05 - Chapter 5. Theory of Crime and Punishment — 8:50
7. 06 - Chapter 6. Remedial Effects of Punishment — 21:30
8. 07 - Chapter 7. Cause of Crime — 18:13
9. 08 - Chapter 8. The Proper Treatment of Crime — 6:23
10. 09 - Chapter 9. Impossibility of Just Judgment — 9:59
11. 10 - Chapter 10. The Judge of the Criminal — 6:42
12. 11 - Chapter 11. The Measure of Punishment — 17:18
13. 12 - Chapter 12. Who Deserves Punishment — 4:57
14. 13 - Chapter 13. Natural Law and Conduct — 11:18
15. 14 - Chapter 14. Rules Governing Penal Codes and Their Victims — 12:50
16. 15 - Chapter 15. The Machinery of Justice — 14:49
17. 16 - Chapter 16. The Right Treatment of Violence — 17:53

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