Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

OUTCOME, n. A particular type of disappointment . . . . judged by the outcome, the result. This is immortal nonsense; the wisdom of an act is to be juded by the light that the doer had when he performed it.

Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.