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

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans".

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.

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.