[Footnote 101: White House, the popular name of the presidential mansion at Washington.] [Footnote 102: Explain the phrase _eat dust_.] [Footnote 103: Overlook, oversee, superintend.] [Footnote 104: Res nolunt, etc. Translated in the previous sentence.] [Footnote 105: The world ... dew. Explain the thought. What gives the earth its shape?] [Footnote 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.] [Footnote 107: Emerson has been considered a pantheist.] [Footnote 108: _[Greek: Hoi kyboi]_, etc. The translation follows in the text. This old proverb is quoted by Sophocles, (Fragm. LXXIV.2) in the form: [Greek: Aei gar eu piptousin oi Dios kyboi], Emerson uses it in _Nature_ in the form "Nature's dice are always loaded."] [Footnote 109: Amain, with full force, vigorously.] [Footnote 110: The proverb is quoted by Horace, Epistles, I, X.24: "Naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurret." A similar thought is expressed by Juvenal, Seneca, Cicero, and Aristophanes.] [Footnote 111: Augustine, Confessions, B. I.] [Footnote 112: Jupiter, the supreme god of the Romans, the Zeus of the Greeks.] [Footnote 113: Tying up the hands. The expression is used figuratively, of course.] [Footnote 114: The supreme power in England is vested in Parliament.] [Footnote 115: Prometheus stole fire from heaven to benefit the race of men. In punishment for this Jupiter chained him to a rock and set an eagle to prey upon his liver. Some unknown and terrible danger threatened Jupiter, the secret of averting which only Prometheus knew. For this secret Jupiter offered him his freedom.] [Footnote 116: Minerva, goddess of wisdom, who sprang full-armed from the brain of Jupiter. The secret which she held is told in the following lines.] [Footnote 117: Aurora, goddess of the dawn. Enamored of Tithonus, she persuaded Jupiter to grant him immortality, but forgot to ask for him immortal youth. Read Tennyson's poem on _Tithonus_.] [Footnote 118: Achilles, the hero of Homer's _Iliad_. His mother Thetis, to render him invulnerable, plunged him into the waters of the Styx. The heel by which she held him was not washed by the waters and remained vulnerable. Here he received a mortal wound.] [Footnote 119: Siegfried, hero of the Nibelungenlied, the old German epic poem. Having slain a dragon, he bathed in its blood and became covered with an invulnerable horny hide, only one small spot between his shoulders which was covered by a leaf remaining vulnerable. Into this spot the treacherous Hagen plunged his lance.] [Footnote 120: Nemesis, a Greek female deity, goddess of retribution, who visited the righteous anger of the gods upon mortals.] [Footnote 121: The Furies or Eumenides, stern and inexorable ministers of the vengeance of the gods.]