Adaptation, 247, 248.
Agassiz, Louis, 163.
Alchemy, 242, 243.
Alcott, Amos Bronson, in Emerson's Journals, 26-29;
on Thoreau, 156.
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 253.
Alphabet, the, 275, 276.
American people, the, 252, 253.
Amiel, Henri Frederic, 4-6;
quoted, 223.
Arnim, Elisabeth von, 34, 35.
Arnold, Matthew, 213, 250, 260;
in Emerson's Journals, 25;
on Emerson, 87, 89, 90;
his poetry, 209;
on poetry, 212.
Art, recent "isms" in, 278, 279.
Audacity, 261.
Aurora borealis, 140, 141.
Batavia Kill, 244.
Beauty, 98-101, 246, 247, 251, 252.
Beecher, Henry Ward, 232.
Bent, following one's, 280, 281.
Benton, Myron, 26.
Bergson, Henri, his "Creative Evolution," revised estimate of, 264-66;
and telepathy, 267, 268.
Bettina, Goethe's, 34, 35.
Bittern, pumping, 135.
Boldness, 261.
Bouton, Deborah, 244.
Bryant, William Cullen, his poetry, 203, 204, 222.
Burns, Robert, 213.
Burroughs, John, chronic homesickness, 227, 228.
Cactus, 248.
Carlyle, Thomas, 34, 35, 43, 47, 97;
contrasted with Emerson, 30;
correspondence with Emerson, 39, 40, 61, 80, 81;
on Webster, 61;
as a painter, 76, 77;
Emerson's love and admiration for, 79-82;
his style, 82.
Channing, William Ellery, 2d, 138-40;
in Emerson's Journals, 9, 29, 30, 142;
in Thoreau's Journal, 149.
City, the, 226, 227.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, quoted, 276.
Contrasts, 218-29.
Country, life in the, 226-28.
Critic, the professional, 259, 260.
Criticism, 260.
D., H., quoted, 277.
Dana, Richard Henry, his "Two Years before the Mast," 256-58.
Dargan, Olive Tilford, quoted, 201, 202.
Darwin, Charles, criticism of his selection theories, 172-89, 193-98;
his "Voyage of the Beagle," 189-93;
his significance, 198-200.
Days, memorable, 231.
Death, thoughts on, 285-88.
De Vries, Hugo, his mutation theory, 196, 197.
Discovery, 223-25.
Early and late, 230, 231.
Eating, 77-79.
Edison, Thomas A., 243, 269.
Electricity, 231.
Emerson, Charles, 5.
Emerson, Dr. Edward W., on Thoreau, 155, 156.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 136, 214, 227, 239;
Journals of, discussed, 1-85;
a new estimate of, 1-4;
and social intercourse, 6-8;
self-reliance, 8, 31, 32;
poet and prophet of the moral ideal, 9-11;
his lectures, 11, 12, 64, 65, 162;
his supreme test of men, 12, 13, 17;
his "Days," 14;
his "Humble-Bee," 14;
"Each and All," 15;
"Two Rivers," 15, 16;
on Poe, 16;
on Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," 17;
as a reader and a writer, 17, 18;
his main interests, 18;
on Jesus as a Representative Man, 20;
on Thoreau, 22, 23, 141, 156, 157;
and John Muir, 23, 24;
alertness, 24;
on Matthew Arnold, 25;
on Lowell, 25, 26;
on Alcott, 26-29;
on Father Taylor, 28, 29;
occupied with the future, 30;
his "Song of Nature," 30, 31;
near and far, past and present, 31, 32;
and human sympathy, 32, 33, 38, 39;
"Representative Men," 33;
attitude towards Whitman, 34, 253;
literary estimates, 34, 35;
on Wordsworth, 36;
correspondence with Carlyle, 39, 40;
love of nature, 41-43;
his book "Nature," 41, 43, 88, 89, 230;
his "May-Day," 43;
feeling for profanity and racy speech, 44-48;
humor, 45-48;
thoughts about God, 48-52;
attitude towards science, 52-60;
on Webster, 60-63;
religion, 63, 64;
self-criticism, 65-67;
"Terminus," 67;
catholicity, 67-70;
on the Bible, 70;
his selection of words, 70, 71;
ideas but no doctrines, 71, 72;
his limitations, 73-75;
and Hawthorne, 73-75;
a painter of ideas, 76, 77;
on eating and the artist, 77;
love and admiration for Carlyle, 79-82;
hungered for the quintessence of things, 84;
the last result of Puritanism, 85;
an estimate of, 86-92;
attitude towards poverty, 89;
weak in logic, 91;
passion for analogy, 92;
false notes in rhetoric, 92-94;
speaking with authority, 95;
at the Holmes breakfast, 95, 96;
his face, 96;
criticisms of, 96-101;
on beauty, 98, 99;
last words on, 102;
compared with Thoreau, 126;
intercourse with Thoreau, 156-58;
incident related by Thoreau, 158;
on Walter Scott, 216;
on oratory, 232;
a New England Thomas à Kempis, 261;
old age, 284, 285.
Esopus, N. Y., 244.
Ethical standards, 233.
Everett, Edward, 223.
Evolution, and the Darwinian theory, 174-89, 193-98;
chance in, 175-81;
the mutation theory, 196, 197;
Bergson reread, 264-66;
evolution of the doctrine, 279, 280.
Farm, the home, 227, 228.
Fist, the, 220, 221.
Flagg, Wilson, Thoreau on, 165, 166.
Flattery, 221, 222.
Flowers, fadeless, 231.
Fort Myers, 243.
Fox, 135, 136.
Fuller, Margaret, 7.
Genius, and talent, 222, 223.
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 280.
Germans, the, 3, 4.
Gilchrist, Anne, on Emerson, 88.
God, Emerson's idea of, 48-52;
Nature's, 233, 234.
Goethe, 98.
Gray, Eri, 244.
Gray, Thomas, his "Elegy written in a Country Church-yard," 216.
Grossmont, Cal., 240.
H. D., quoted, 277.
Hawaiian Islands, 236.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, and Emerson, 73-75.
Hearn, Lafcadio, quoted, 202.
Heat, 246.
Hermits, 244.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 253.
History, the grand movements of, 249.
Homesickness, 227-29.
Howells, William Dean, 227;
an estimate, 262, 263.
Insects, hum of, 244, 245.
Invention, 223-26.
James, Henry, his hypersensitiveness, 255, 256.
James, William, quoted, 234.
Journals, 4, 5.
Juvenal, quoted, 242.
Keator, Ike, 244.
Kepler, Johann, quoted, 254.
Kidd, Benjamin, his "Social Evolution," 270.
Kingsley, Charles, a parable of, 189;
and Newman, 261.
Knowledge, the Tree of, 248.
Lamarck, 280.
Landor, Walter Savage, Emerson and, 34, 35, 43.
Life, the result of a system of checks and counter-checks, 236, 237.
Lincoln, Abraham, 220, 221, 223.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, in Emerson's Journals, 25.
Loveman, Robert, his poetry, 204, 205;
quoted, 204, 205.
Lowell, James Russell, in Emerson's Journals, 25;
criticism of Thoreau, 104-11;
love of books and of nature, 110, 111;
possessed talent but not genius, 223;
and Whitman, 253.
McCarthy, John Russell, his poems, 204, 208, 223;
quoted, 214, 215, 223.
Masefield, John, 208.
Maui, 236.
Meteoric men, 231, 232, 270-72.
Milton, John, "Paradise Lost," 260;
quoted, 260.
Montaigne, 8.
Moody, William Vaughn, his poetry, 204-07;
quoted, 207.
Morgan, Thomas Hunt, on Darwin, 200.
Movements, in inert matter, 245.
Muir, John, 23.
Mutation theory, 196, 197.
Natural history, and ethical and poetic values, 54-56.
Natural selection, criticism of the theory, 178-89, 193-98.
Newspapers, 272-74.
"Noa Noa," 278.
Old age, the psychology of, 281-85.
Oratory, 232, 233.
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, on chance in evolution, 175.
Palm and fist, 220, 221.
Pascal, Blaise, quoted, 233.
Permanent, and transient, 218, 219.
Phillips, Stephen, 270.
Phillips, Wendell, 222, 232;
quoted, 221.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 203;
Emerson on, 16, 74;
his poetry, 209-11.
Poets, do not efface one another, 250, 251.
Poetry, only the best significant, 201;
a discussion of, 201-17;
B.'s own, 203;
and philosophy, 203, 204, 207-09, 260;
not sweetened prose put up in verse form, 267;
red revolution in, 276-78.
Pope, Alexander, 201.
Positive and negative, 219, 220.
Power, mankind drunk with, 248, 249.
Praise, and flattery, 221, 222.
Prayer, 233.
Quotations, a book of, 261, 262.
Rain, creative function of, 236.
Rainbow, the, 137, 138.
Rashness, 261.
Reds of literature and art, the, 276-79.
Reed, Sampson, 34, 35.
Rhyme, 267.
Ripley, Rev. Dr. Ezra, 45, 46.
Robertson, Frederick William, 232.
Rochefoucauld, quoted, 284.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 220, 259, 272.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 179.
Sandburg, Carl, quoted, 276, 277.
Santayana, George, quoted, 260.
Scott, Sir Walter, his poems, 216.
Sea, the, 218.
Sect, a queer, 243.
Sexes, the, 238-40.
Shakespeare, William, quoted, 242.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 74.
Sidney, Sir Philip, quoted, 267.
Smith, Alexander, 270.
Snake, mechanism for crushing eggs, 196.
Snow, 252.
Spanish-American War, 206.
Spencer, Herbert, 280.
Spiritualism, 267-69.
Stanton, Edwin M., 221.
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 253.
Style, 81-84, 256.
Sublime, the, 251.
Swift, Jonathan, 93, 267;
quoted, 223.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 209, 254.
Talent, and genius, 222, 223.
Taylor, Edward T., 28, 29, 85.
Telepathy, 267-69.
Tennyson, Alfred, 41, 209, 250;
and Whitman, 254.
Theories, absurd, 242, 243.
Thomas à Kempis, 261;
quoted, 261.
Thomson, J. Arthur, 96.
Thoreau, Henry D., Journal of, 4, 5;
in Emerson's Journals, 20, 29;
compared with Emerson, 20-22;
his "Walden," 21;
"The Maine Woods," 21, 22;
"Cape Cod," 22;
Emerson on, 22, 23;
false notes in rhetoric, 93;
does not grow stale, 103;
ancestry, 104;
Lowell's criticism of, 104-11;
industry, 106;
philosophy and life, 108;
accomplishment, 109, 110;
his "Walden," 110, 143, 147;
humor, 110;
approving of Whitman, 111, 112;
as a nature writer, 112-20;
his Journal quoted and criticized, 113, 128, 134-37, 139-61, 163-65,
169, 170;
"Walden" quoted, 114-19, 137, 143, 146, 147;
travels, 119, 120;
uniqueness, 120, 121;
and science, 122;
individualism, 122, 123;
an extremist, 123, 124;
and civilization, 124, 125;
compared with Emerson, 126;
as a walker, 127-32;
his "Walking," 127-29;
his natural-history lore, 133-41;
faults as a writer, 141-46;
love of writing, 150;
literary activity, 153-55;
personality, 155-59;
and the Civil War, 159, 160;
and John Brown, 160;
inconsistencies, 160-62, 166;
his "Life without Principle," 162;
idealism, 162-68;
manual labor, 163-65;
moralizing on Bill Wheeler, 167, 168;
and human emotions, 168;
and young women, 168, 169;
as a philosopher, 169, 170;
merits as a man and a writer, 170, 171;
quoted, 242.
Time, 241, 242.
Timeliness, 230, 231.
Torrey, Bradford, 134, 163.
Town and country, 226-28.
Transient, and permanent, 218, 219.
Truth, 234, 235, 247.
Verse, free, 276-78.
Very, Jones, in Emerson's Journals, 9, 25;
Emerson's high opinion of, 35.
"Vestiges of Creation," 280.
Views, from mountain-tops, 240, 241.
Virgil, quoted, 242.
Walking, 127-32.
Warbler, night, Thoreau's, 136.
Wealth, 237, 238.
Webster, Daniel, Emerson on, 60-63;
Carlyle on, 61.
Weismann, August, 178.
Wells, Dr. W. C., 280.
Whitman, Walt, 94, 222, 227, 253, 278;
Emerson on "Leaves of Grass," 17;
in Emerson's Journals, 25;
Emerson's attitude towards, 34;
receives "May-Day" from Emerson, 43;
quoted, 100, 179, 202, 212, 250, 251, 254, 285;
Thoreau's approval of, 111, 112;
his philosophy, 208, 209;
as a criterion, 253, 254;
his faith in himself, 254.
Whittier, John G., 92, 93;
and Whitman, 253.
Wilkinson, Garth, 35.
Wilson, Woodrow, 221, 232, 271.
Winter, William, 253.
Women, 238-40.
Words, and style, 83, 84.
Wordsworth, William, 216, 250, 251;
Emerson's estimate of, 36;
quoted, 100, 218;
a poet-walker, 130, 131;
on poetry and philosophy, 203;
great only at rare intervals, 212, 213.
Wren, cactus, 248.
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