Twain's Essay 'The Damned Human Race'

In the essay, “The Damned Human Race”, Twain’s use of tone and voice are significant in expressing his opinion that man is not the higher animal, but in fact the lower one. The negative tone of man begins with the title using the word “damned” and the opening sentence where Twain’s use quotations around “lower-animal “and his implication that animals are in fact the “higher animal”. Twain continues his negative, almost disgusted tone towards the human race when he stated, “I find the results humiliating to me.” Twain also take on a hostile tone by attacking man by using the phrase, "Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity--these are all strictly confined to man; he invented them." Occasionally throughout the essay, Twain almost has a joking or sarcastic