25-6. Both were searching for truth.
27-8. Clough hopes that wherever the course of events may carry the human race, sometime, somewhere, all differences in thought may be reconciled.
1-7. The nautilus is a species of shell-fish. The shell is spiral, and is divided into chambers or cavities. The animal occupies only the outer cavity. The others are filled with gas. The belief once existed that the nautilus was furnished with a membrane which served as a sail. The root meaning of the word nautilus is “a ship.” This old belief is, however, only a poetic fancy. The nautilus creeps along the bottom of the sea, and does not come to the surface to swim or sail.
5. the Siren. The Sirens were sea-nymphs, who by their entrancing music fascinated those who sailed along their shores, and drew them on to their destruction.
13. The shell is broken so that the separate cells are seen.
14. irised ceiling. The walls of the cell, tinted like the rainbow.
crypt. A crypt is an underground vault used for burial purposes. Here the enclosed chamber in the shell of the nautilus.
20. idle. Unused.