Mace, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
Clergyman, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his earthly ones.
Rank, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.
Lock-and-key, n. The distinguishing device of civilization and enlightenment.
Sauce, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.
We likely put too much stock in this idea that a civilized society is best. The cant of civilization fatigues. Civilization is a fine and beautiful structure. It is as picturesque as a Gothic cathedral. But it is built upon the bones and cemented with the blood of those whose part in all its pomp […]
Metropolis, n. A stronghold of provincialism.
Clergyman, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones.
Evangelist, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.
