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.