A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If mans notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from and nowise dependent on, their consequences-then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.

Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.