[211] Parallax, an angle used in astronomy in calculating the distance of a heavenly body. The parallax decreases as the distance of the body increases.
[212] The child has the advantage of the experience of all his ancestors. Compare Tennyson's line in Locksley Hall:
"I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time."
[213] "Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also."—Emerson, Introd. to Nature, Addresses, etc.
[214] Explain the thought in this sentence.
[215] Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus.
[216] Agent, active, acting.
[217] An allusion to the Mohammedan custom of removing the shoes before entering a mosque.
[218] Of a truth, men are mystically united; a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
[219] Thor and Woden. Woden or Odin was the chief god of Scandinavian mythology. Thor, his elder son, was the god of thunder. From these names come the names of the days Wednesday and Thursday.