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rational, sensible; intelligent; having reason or understanding; not absurd or foolish.
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simultaneously, all at the same time; all taking place at one time.
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computer, a person whose duty requires a knowledge of figures and computing.
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impaired, weakened; damaged.
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popular education, education for the mass of people; democratic education.
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of the moment, of the time that affords an opportunity; of the present.
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Plato （427-347 B.C.）, the eminent Greek philosopher, made such a statement in his Republic .
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laborious, laboring; doing unskilled labor.
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model commonwealth, the body of people constituting a state or politically organized community that serves as an example for imitation. Plato’s Republic is an attempt at presenting such an organization.
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extraordinary, beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary.
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one generation ago . Around 1865 when the American Civil War ended. The average time in which children are ready to replace parents is reckoned at one third of a century or at thirty years as a time measure.
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our Southern States, the southern states of the United States of America.
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feudal society . In medieval Europe, society was based on the relation between vassal and superior arising from the holding of lands in feud.
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clergy, the body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity.
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Napoleonic wars . The wars against the encroachments of Napoleon were fought in the years between 1799 and 1815.
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twenty-seven years old, that is, since 1870.
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meteorology, the science or the branch of physics treating of the atmosphere and its phenomena, especially its variations of heat and moisture, its winds and storms, and others.
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entwined, twisted or wreathed together or around; included.
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mythologies . Mythology treats of myths, which are stories, the origins of which are forgotten, that ostensibly relate historical events, which are usually of such character as to serve to some practice, belief, institution, or natural phenomenon. A myth may be a person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable. Here, the reference is to the myths of Greece and Rome, and those of the Teutonic tribes—to such stories as those of Zeus and his Olympian comrades.
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Old Testament stories, stories from the Old Testament of the Bible, such as the story of the crossing of the Red Sea, that of the sun and moon standing still at the command of Joshua and others too numerous to relate.
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fairy tales, as those given in Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales.
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historical romances, those of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, of Charlemagne and his Twelve Peers, of Æneas and his wanderings and many others.
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perverse, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked;perverted.
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infiltration, penetrating gradually.
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porridge, a food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance in water or milk to form a broth or thin pudding.
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