Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Granitarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility.

DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

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

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure