IDIOT, n.
A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.
IMMORAL, adj.
Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If man's notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from, and nowise dependent on, their consequences -- then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.
INTIMACY, n.
A relationship into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.
IMBECILITY
A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics.
IMPARTIAL, adj.
Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either
side of a controversy or adopting either of two conflicting opinions.
INGRATE, n.
One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
INJUSTICE, n.
A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is
lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.
IDLENESS, n.
A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new
sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.
IMMORAL, adj.
Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If man's notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from, and nowise dependent on, their consequences -- then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.
INTIMACY, n.
A relationship into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.
IMBECILITY
A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics.
IMPARTIAL, adj.
Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either
side of a controversy or adopting either of two conflicting opinions.
INGRATE, n.
One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
INJUSTICE, n.
A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is
lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.
IDLENESS, n.
A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new
sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
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