[102] Explain the phrase eat dust.
[103] Overlook, oversee, superintend.
[104] Res nolunt, etc. Translated in the previous sentence.
[105] The world ... dew. Explain the thought. What gives the earth its shape?
[106] The microscope ... little. This statement is not in accordance with the facts, if we are to understand perfect in the sense which the next sentence would suggest.
[107] Emerson has been considered a pantheist.
[108]Oἱ κύβοι, etc. The translation follows in the text. This old proverb is quoted by Sophocles, (Fragm. lxxiv. 2) in the form:
Ἀεὶ γὰρ εὖ πίπτουσιν οἱ Διὸς κύβοι,
Emerson uses it in Nature in the form "Nature's dice are always loaded."
[109] Amain, with full force, vigorously.