human
Since your honors have been so kind and complaisant toward my humble self as to grant me the right of speech before all others here present, I shall profit by this permission, so generously accorded, and I shall speak. I imagine in my imagination that I find myself in the midst of the very venerable Roman senate--senatus populusque Romanus, as we said in those good old times which, unhappily for humanity, will never come back,--and I will ask the patres conscripti--as the sage Cicero would say if he were in my place--I would ask them, since time presses, and time is golden as Solomon says, that in this important matter each one give his opinion clearly, briefly, and simply. I have done.
gpt
Ha! Did I speak well? Ha!
human
Now the floor belongs to any one who--hem!