It is better to risk too broad a conception of religion than to err on the side of excessive restriction. To be sure, there are dangers of excessive definatory breadth.

We used to call her the Vagitarian, remember?

The rest of the crew, myself included, merely stood up to our spikes in heaving, whereas, unwontedly exhilarated, at every turn of the ponderous windlass, my belted comrade leaped atop of it, with might and main giving a downward, thewy, perpindicular heave, his raised eye bent in cheery animation upon the slowly receding shore.

Then he could kick the loose ball by soccering it, but not handle it.