Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.