CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

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

SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.

RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable - omnipotent on condition that it do nothing.

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

In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.

ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.