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quickening spirit, spirit that animates or inspires.
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prosaic, suitable for prose, which is commonplace or dull or unromantic as compared to poetry, so it is commonly assumed.
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mandarins, formerly, Chinese offcials.
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converse, chat or talk.
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crowns, sits on the top of the mountain, just as a crown is on the head of the king.
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Taoists， 道教徒，followers of one of the chief religious sects of our country.
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disk, circular object.
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Li Tai-p‘o， 李太白（701-762）, famous poet of the T‘ang dynasty.
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symposium, ancient Greek drinking party, now more commonly used to denote a philosophical or other friendly discussion.
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Pi Hsia-yüen， 碧霞云．
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the Great Bear， 北斗，Ursa Major, the Dipper, a northern constellation of stars seven in number, two of which point to the Pole Star.
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Psalms, a book of the Old Testament of the Bible, often called the Psalms of David, because they are the songs chanted by King David in praise of his God.
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Hebraic is the adjective of the noun Hebrew, Jew. Hebraic here refers to the religion of the Jewish people, to the Holy Bible of the Christians, which is a history of the aspirations of the Jewish people. King David, author of the Psalms, Jesus, all the people of the Bible are Hebrews.
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retorted, said by way of answer.
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Wordsworth, William （1770-1850）, English romantic poet, worshiper of Nature.
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cult, study and pursuit of worship.
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mythology, body of myths or primitive tales imaginatively describing or accounting for natural phenomena, especially by personification.
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suckled, fed from the breast or udder. A pagan is a person who does not acknowledge Jehovah, Christ, nor Allah. The poet says that he would much rather be a pagan brought up in a religious creed that is out of fashion, that is out of date, … .
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forlorn, forsaken; in pitiful condition.
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“pro-Chinese,” a foreigner who favors or sides with the Chinese.
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candid, unprejudiced; free from dissimulation or reserve.
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insincere paradox . A paradox is a statement that is contrary to the generally accepted opinion, that conflicts with preconceived notions of the reasonable or possible. When Mr. Dickinson makes the statement that China is more civilized than the modern West, he states an opinion that seems to be contrary to the generally accepted opinion that China is not as civilized as the modern West. People suspect that he is not sincere when he makes such a statement.
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unqualified . You qualify statement by putting limitations to or modifying it. An unqualified sense is a meaning that has not had this limitation or modification put on.
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irrelevant, not concerned with the matter in hand; not pertinent to.
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superstructure, what rests on a foundation; a building in relation to its foundations.
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