Then, quietly measuring every word, he drove
The sentence home. “I asserted and repeat
A man would have no cause to feel ashamed
Of being descended through vast tracts of time
From that poor ape.
Were there an ancestor
Whom I could not recall without a sense
Of shame, it were a man, so placed, so gifted,
Who sought to sway his hearers from the truth
By aimless eloquence and by skilled appeals