PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore.

Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.