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Adam . According to Genesis, the first book of the Bible, “God created man in his own image” on the sixth day. This man was Adam.
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Eve . Later God took a rib from Adam and made of it a woman, to be the mate of man. “Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.”
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monitors, persons who offer advice or serves warning; senior schoolboys placed in authority of the class.
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susceptible, made sensitive to; exposed to; given over to.
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Test-Acts . In English history, the Test-Act was a statute passed in 1673 requiring persons holding office, civil or military, or positions of trust under the crown, to take the oaths of supremacy and allegiance, renounce under oath the right to take arms against the king, and receive communion under the Church of England. This act was partially repealed in 1828.
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Those who take honors, those who win distinction, such as academic distinction.
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“Poll.” In Cambridge University, England, the poll （collective） are the students who “go up” for, or obtain, a pass or ordinary degree （poll degree）, that is, a degree without honors.
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plucked . Originally an English university slang meaning rejection from the university for some deficiency or misdemeanor; but, now only, rejection for failure to pass in an examination.
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extermination, utter destruction; death.
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compulsory education, the system of education in which every child is enforced or compelled to attend school.
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visited as sharply, punished as severely and suddenly.
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boxed, strucked with the hand or fist, especially on the ear or on the side of the head.
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intervenes, interferes; breaks in to take a part.
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artificial education, education that is artificial because it is obtained by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural education.
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anticipation, act of introducing beforehand; an education that teaches the students beforehand how to make use of natural education.
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spin the gossamers, deal with very delicate matters, perhaps somewhat airy. A gossamer is a light filmy substance, like the webs of small spiders, floating in calm air or spread over grass.
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forge the anchors, deal with coarser matters, undoubtedly more stable and substantial. Anchors are used to moor ships to the bottom of the sea, and are heavy and large.
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stunted ascetic . An ascetic is one who devotes himself to a solitary and contemplative life, with rigorous discipline of the self, as by celibacy, fasting, and self-mortification. Such extreme self-denial stunts or checks the otherwise normal man and his development.
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to come to heel, to obey, just as a hunting dog is trained to follow closely at the heel of his master when commanded to do so.
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the servant of a tender conscience, obeying a moral sense of right and wrong that is easily touched or moved.
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to hate all vileness . A man who has had a liberal education is one who has learned that not only must he not be satisfied merely to be good, but also that he must take an aggressive attitude and hate all evil, try to eradicate evil.
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beneficent mother, mother doing good or showing active kindness.
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her mouthpiece, spokesman, one who speaks for Nature.
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her conscious self, Nature represented as conscious, through his conscious thought; Nature shown as being aware of external things, Nature with mental faculties alive and awake because he is wide awake.
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her minister, the person employed by Nature to carry out her purposes; her agent.
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