Many persons have felt the sense of fatigue which the Athenians expressed practically by their oyster shells, and have been led to cast doubts on Washington's perfection as the only consolation for their own sense of injury.
Lodge uses a metaphor to illustrate how people's doubts about Washington's perfection often stem from their own feelings of inadequacy.
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