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.
Presbyterian, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
Rector, n. In the Church of England, the Third Person of the parochial Trinity, the Cruate and the Vicar being the other two.
