The narrator is brisk and businesslike;Wheeler takes his time is the answer
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called), and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian<span>theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that the theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.</span>
The answer is C. "to emphasize the pain and struggle that truth has lived through"
<span>Mr.Nuttel is staying in the country in order to take a "rest cure." He is suffering from a nervous disorder and, as he tells Mrs. Sappleton, "The doctors agree in ordering me complete rest, an absence of mental excitement, and avoidance of anything in that can exhaust him.</span>