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

POSITIVISM, n. 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.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

A cat is a soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.