great personal worth. As if to fulfill man's deepest needs, Jesus
Christ enters the earthly scene. He comes to hasten man's step along
that pathway that leads from littleness unto largeness. Before our
admiring vision the Divine Teacher seems like some sacred husbandman,
His garden our earth, good men and great earth's richest fruit. He
asks each youth to love and make the most of himself, that later on he
may be bread to the hungry, medicine to the wounded, shelter to the
weak. He bids each love his own reason, getting wisdom with that eager
passion that Hugh Miller had for knowledge. He bids each make the most
of friendship, emulating Plato in his love for his noble teacher. He
asks each to love industry, emulating Peabody, whose generosity gushed
like rivers. He asks each to make the most of courage and
self-reliance, emulating Livingstone in self-denying service. He bids
each emulate and look up to Jesus Christ, as Dante, midst the pitchy
night, looked up toward the star. He bids each move heaven and earth
to achieve for himself a worthy manhood. For thus only can earth ever
be moved back unto heaven.
INDEX
Abelard, 166
Abraham, influence on posterity, 16
Abundant Life, 29
AEschylus, 198
Agassiz, 102, 237
Aristotle, 124
Arkwright, 99
Arnold, 135, 216, 292
Thos., 164
Aspirations and Ideals, 53
number and kind, 61
power to lift life, 58
the use of, 63
rebuke lower life, 66
enemies of, 70
Babbage, 287
Bancroft, Geo., 10
Beatrice, 44
Beecher, 19, 95, 134, 142, 188, 258
Bible, 32, 98, 142, 164, 255
Body, a thinking machine, 80
delicacy of sensation, 80
evolution, 81
its needs as stimuli, 88
channel of knowledges, 88
system of moral registration, 92
Books and reading, 233
increase of power of vision, 238
show men at their best, 239
tools for the mind, 240
multiply brain forces, 242
preserve the spirit of great men, 243
give information, 246
show unity of progress, 249
choice of books, 250
Brooks, Phillips, 44, 254
Brown, John, 58
Browning, Mrs., 248
Bulwer Lytton, 135
Bunyan, 114
Burns, 158, 294
Byron, 48, 188, 198, 250
Cadmus, 16
Caird, 84
Capital, original, 13
Carlyle, 76, 214, 234, 239, 255
Castelar, 40
Channing, 192, 225, 234
Character, 31, 44
defined, 34
materials of, 34
Charles IX., 203
Clay, 154, 262
Climate, effect on race, 16
Coleridge, 47, 132, 200, 293
Columbus, 56, 152
Confucius, 32
Conscience and Character, 187
working of conscience, 191, 201
uses and functions, 199
standard, 199
relation to judgment, 200
influence on memory, 201
in daily life, 202
commercial, 205
emotional, 208
to the past, 209
Contrasts and extremes, teachers, 47
Cooper, Peter, 177
Cranmer, 145
Cromwell, 39, 40, 100
Curtis, Geo. Wm., 23
Dana, 84
Dante, 21, 78, 129, 150, 165, 198, 215, 312, 318
David, 48, 165
Death, 95
Demosthenes, 198
De Tocqueville, 126
Dickens, 106
Distribution of ability in U.S., 22
Dore, 124
Douglass, Frederick, 223
Dreams, 64
Drummond, 82, 84
Dwight's dictum, 15
Edison, 169, 304
Elements of worth in individual, 9
Eliot, Geo., 178, 196, 222
Emerson, 13, 31, 34, 42, 98, 103, 122, 150, 164
Enthusiasm, 168
of friendship, 165
Epictetus, 174
Evolution, 82
External world a teacher, 37
Faraday, 248
Fiske, 94
Friendship, 163
secret of eminence, 173
refining, 178
Froude, 172
Garibaldi, 171, 184
Gladstone, 43, 69
Goethe, 151
Grant, 184
Greeley, 33
Guttenberg printing press, 82
Hamilton, 133, 201
Handel, 153
Harrison, Frederic, 234, 250, 314
Hawthorne, 107
Health, 75
Helps, Arthur, 253
Heredity, 130
Herod, 189
Heroes raised up to teach men, 58, 59
Hoe, printing press, 82
Holland, J.G., 23
Holmes, O.W., 13
Homer, 60, 312
Hugo, 193
Huss, 145, 150
Huxley, 76
Ideals, teachers, 49
Ignorance, 19, 31
Imagination, 141
defined, 147
sustains men, 149
place in science and invention, 157
mechanics, 152
helps character, 156
abuse of, 157
lifts above misfortune, 159
reveals God, 160
Integrity, 27
Iron, value of raw and manufactured, 20
Jacob's vision, 70, 166
Jesus, 14, 29, 30, 31, 40, 51, 59, 115, 118, 183, 189, 210, 215, 271,
309, 318, 319
John, 14
Johnson, 47, 166
Jones, Sir Wm., 304
Judas Iscariot, 135
Keats, 106
King, Starr, 312
Knowledge, 20
Kossuth, 184
Lamartine, 34
Lamb, 47, 166, 244
Lecky, 45
Lee, inventor of loom, 47
Lincoln, 34, 41, 169, 219, 284, 312
Livingstone, 58, 78, 236, 241
Living with men, 257
the largest subject, 259
training necessary, 262
the most important act, 264
the most difficult, 266
aim and end of life, 274
test of manhood, 275
Locke, 122
Lodge's study of distribution of ability, 22
Longfellow, 129, 252
Lowell, 31, 98, 142, 312
Lubbock's inquiry of Indian chief, 16, 175
Luther, 40, 41, 58, 78, 100, 171
Macaulay, 132, 262
Making the most of one's self, 299
self-care and self-love, 301
debt of strength to weakness, 305
examples from history, 309
examples from great men, 309
duty of the nation, 316
teaching of Christ, 318
Man a double creature, 85
Mann, Horace, 17
Massachusetts, education, 22
McCosh, 84
Michael Angelo, 118, 149, 214
Mill, John Stuart, 12, 25
Millais, Martyr, 58
Millet's Angelus, 20
Milton, 34, 56, 79, 114, 129, 153, 167, 174, 198, 234, 312
Mind and the duty of right thinking, 97
its wonderfulness, 101
its fruitfulness, 103
determines character, 114
Misfits in life, 13
Mivart, 116
Monotony, a teacher, 43
Moral uses of the memory, 121
basis of civilization, 125
power, 131
examples, Macaulay, Niebuhr, etc., 131
influenced by conscience, 201
Napoleon, 17, 142, 153, 184
Newness as a teacher, 42
Newton, 84, 237, 238
Nestor, 307
Niebuhr's memory, 131
Nilsson, 154
Northampton, noted men, 23
Obedience to law, 27
Oken, 151
Paganini, 14, 262
Pasteur, 312
Paul, 12, 41, 234, 235, 282
Paupers, plebeian and patrician, 12
Peter, 135
Petrarch, 166
Phillips, 135, 170, 217, 307
Phidias, 79, 125
Phocion, 34
Physical basis of character, 74
Pitt, 135
Plato, 13, 163, 183, 189, 214, 306
Pliny, 70
Proctor, 103
Ptolemy, 45
Pythagoras, 144
Racial elements, 15
Rameses, 77
Raphael, 51
Rasselas, 47
Responsibility a teacher, 46
Revelators of character, 279
the face, 283
instances, 285
body, 285
habits and unconscious desires, 292
power of pure character, 297
Richter, 121
Rosetti, 121
Ruskin, 41, 43, 255, 258
Savonarola, 41, 171,191
Scaliger's memory, 131
Schopenhauer, 227
Schiller, 167, 214
Scott, 150, 201
Seneca's memory, 131
Servetus, 203
Seward, 188
Shakespeare, 22, 47, 51, 53, 79, 97, 125, 136, 164, 193, 307
Silas Marner, 178
Sin, a personal fact, 87
Skill in handling men, 25
Smith, Adam, 12
Sidney, 111
Socrates, 14, 57, 92, 130, 165, 190, 214
Solon, 144
Sophocles, 198
Sophroniscus, 147
Southey, 244
Spencer, Herbert, 50, 168
Stanley, 217, 292
Sterne, 188
Stupidity of sin, 25
Strength, physical, 17
Strikes, 25
Swing, 97, 164, 212, 258
Taylor, 212
Teachers in life external world, 37
temptation, 39
newness and zest, 42
monotony, 44
responsibility, 46
contrasts and extremes, 47
ideals, 49
Temptation, 39
Tennyson, 121, 165, 172, 284
Themistocles, 23
Theseus, 16
Tholuck, 51
Thomson, Sir Wm., 248
Thompson, 75
Thoughts affect face's expression, 109
Thucydides, 199
Titian, 262
Trademarks, 281
Tubman, Harriet, 223
Tupper, 35
Tyndall, 101
Value of man, financial, 11
acc. to race, 16
thoughts determine, 111
Veronese, 113
Virgil, 110
Vision hours, 50, 62, 68, 230
Visions that disturb, 211
shape great lives, 217
bring life's best moods, 222
conquer sin, 223
secure service for right, 223
make good men perfect, 224
for our nation, 225
Von Humboldt, 189
Moltke, 23
Rile, 118
Wastes of Society, 9
through ignorance, 19
hatred, 28
Washington, 34, 188
Watson, Wm., 212
Watts, 29, 80, 125, 152
Webster, 153, 192, 220, 256, 262, 284, 312
White, Pres., 314
Whitney, Prof., 23
Wordsworth, 47, 97, 106, 178
Zeno, 318
Zacharias, 14
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