Reason, V.i. To Weight Probabilities In The

The Gambling Known As Business Looks With Austere Disfavor Upon The Business Known As Gambling.

Painting, N.: The Art Of Protecting Flat Surfaces From The Weather, And Exposing Them To The Critic.

Diagnosis, N. A Physician's Forecast Of Disease By The Patient's Pulse And Purse.

In This World One Must Have A Name; It Prevents Confusion, Even When It Does Not Establish Identity. Some, Though, Are Known By Numbers, Which Also Seem Inadequate Distinctions.

Monument, N. A Structure Intended To Commemorate Something Which Either Needs No Commemoration Or Cannot Be Commemorated.