A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.

PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.

Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

Evolutionary biology is genuinely scientific, but more than that it opens the door to a world more marvellous than any Christian fundamentalist has ever read into the pages of the Bible.

An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.