Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.