[208] Scanderbeg, George Castriota (1404-1467), an Albanian chief who embraced Christianity and carried on a successful war against the Turks. [209] Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632), King of Sweden, the hero of Protestantism in the Thirty Years' War. [210] Hieroglyphic, a character in the picture-writing of the ancient Egyptian priests; hence, hidden sign. [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. [220] Explain the meaning of this sentence. [221] You, or you, addressing different persons. [222] "The truth shall make you free."—John, viii. 32. [223] Antinomianism, the doctrine that the moral law is not binding under the gospel dispensation, faith alone being necessary to salvation. [224] "There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that—to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail." George Eliot, Middlemarch, lxxvi. [225] Explain the use of it in these expressions. [226] Stoic, a disciple of the Greek philosopher Zeno, who taught that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy and grief, and should submit without complaint to the inevitable. [227] Word made flesh, see John, i. 14. [228] Healing to the nations, see Revelation, xxii. 2. [229] In what prayers do men allow themselves to indulge? [230] "Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast." Montgomery, What is Prayer? [231] Caratach (Caractacus) is a historical character in Fletcher's (1576-1625) tragedy of Bonduca (Boadicea). [232] Zoroaster, a Persian philosopher, founder of the ancient Persian religion. He flourished long before the Christian era. [233] "Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die."—Exodus, xx. 19. Compare also the parallel passage in Deuteronomy, v. 25-27. [234] John Locke. (See note 18.) [235] Lavoisier (1743-1794), celebrated French chemical philosopher, discoverer of the composition of water.