entioned, 382.

Middlesex Agricultural Association, 235.
(See _Agriculture, Emerson's Essays._)

Middlesex Association, Emerson admitted, 53.

Miller's Retrospect, 34.

Milton, John:
influence in New England, 16;
quotation, 24;
essay, 73, 75;
compared with Emerson, 76, 77;
Lycidas, 178;
supposed speech, 220;
diet, 270, 271;
poetic rank, 281;
Arnold's citation, Logic, Rhetoric, 315;
popularity, 316;
quoted, 324;
tin pans, 325;
inventor of harmonies, 328;
Lycidas, 333;
Comus, 338;
times mentioned, 382;
precursor, quotation, 415.

Miracles:
false impression, 121, 122;
and idealism, 146;
theories, 191;
St. Januarius, 217;
objections, 244.
(See _Bible, Christ, Religion_, etc.)

Modena, Italy, Emerson's visit, 63.

Monadnoc, Mount, 70.

Montaigne:
want of religion, 300;
great authority, 380;
times quoted, 382.

Montesquieu, on immortality, 291.

Monthly Anthology:
Wm. Emerson's connection, 13, 26;
precursor of North American Review, 28, 29;
character, 30, 31;
Quincy's tribute, 31;
Society formed, 32;
career, 33;
compared with The Dial, 160.

Moody Family, of York, Me., 8,10.

Morals, in Plutarch, 301.

Morison, John Hopkins, on Emerson's preaching, 67.

Mormons, 264, 268.

Mother-wit, a favorite expression, 404, 405.

Motley, John Lothrop, 33, 223.

Mount Auburn, strolls, 40.

Movement, party of the, 147.

Munroe & Co., publishers, 81.

Music:
church, 306;
inaptitude for, 361;
great composers, 401.

Musketaquid River, 22, 70, 71.

Mysticism:
unintelligible, 390;
Emerson's, 396.

Napoleon:
allusion, 197;
times mentioned, 382.

Napoleon III., 225.

Nation, The, Emerson's interest in, 348.

Native Bias, 288.

Nature:
in undress, 72;
solicitations, 110;
not truly studied, 135;
great men, 199;
tortured, 402.
(See _Emerson's Books, Emerson's Essays_, etc.)

Negations, to be shunned, 285.

New Bedford, Mass., Emerson's preaching, 52, 67.

Newbury, Mass., Edward Emerson's deaconship, 8.

New England:
families, 2, 3, 5;
Peter Bulkeley's coming, 6;
clerical virtues, 9;
Church, 14;
literary sky, 33;
domestic service, 34, 35;
two centres, 52;
an ideal town, 70, 71;
the Delphi