He had long been used to having his bare word accepted on any point whatever, having labored all his military years to just that end, craving that integrity of vision and perception that is so vastly more than honesty alone, that the blatant unbelief of these opinionative asses overwhelmed him for the moment.
There was not one man on the committee who had ever done anything more dangerous than shooting snipe, nor one who had seen anything more inexplicable than spots before his eyes after too much dinner.

Yet they mocked King and me, in a sort of way that monkeys in the tree-tops mock a tiger.
Their remarks were on a par with those the cave-man must have used when some one came from over the sky-line and told them that fire could be made by rubbing bits of wood together.

They recalled to us what the Gray Mahatma had said about Galileo trying to make the Pope believe that the earth moved around the sun.

The Pope threatened to burn Galileo for heresy; they only offered to pillory us with public ridicule; so the world has gone forward a little bit.
"Let's go," said somebody at last.

"I've had enough of this.