;
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 a 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.

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