n:
in college, 24, 25;
his literary place, 33;
aid, 276.

Hindoo Scriptures, 199, 200. (See _Bible, India_, etc.)

History, how it should be written, 168.

Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood:
reference to, 223;
on the Burns speech, 225;
kindness, 273, 274, 276-279;
at Emerson's death-bed, 349;
funeral address, 351-353.

Hoar, Samuel:
statesman, 72;
tribute, 213, 214.

Holland, description of the Dutch, 217.

Holley, Horace, prayer, 267.

Holmes, John, a pupil of Emerson, 50.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell:
memories of Dr. Ripley, 15;
of C.C. Emerson, 20, 21;
familiarity with Cambridge and its college, 45;
erroneous quotation from, 251, 252;
jest erroneously attributed to, 400, 401.

Holy Ghost, "a new born bard of the," 123. (See _Christ, God,
Religion_, etc.)

Homer:
poetic rank, 202, 320;
plagiarism, 205;
Iliad, 253;
allusion, 315;
tin pans, 325;
times quoted, 382. (See _Greek_, etc.)

Homer, Jonathan, minister of Newton, 15.

Hooper, Mrs. Ellen, The Dial, 159, 160.

Hope:
lacking in America, 143;
in every essay, 284.

Horace:
allusion, 22;
Ars Poetica, 316.

Horses, Flora Temple's time, 388.

Howard University, speech, 263.

Howe, Samuel Gridley, the philanthropist, 223.

Hunt, Leigh, meeting Emerson, 195.

Hunt, William, the painter, 223.

Idealism, 98-100, 146, 150.

Idealists:
Ark full, 191;
Platonic sense, 391.

Imagination:
the faculty, 141;
defined, 237, 238;
essay, 283;
coloring life, 324.

Imbecility, 231.

Immortality, 262. (See _God, Religion_, etc.)

Incompleteness, in poetry, 339.

India:
poetic models, 338;
idea of preexistence, 391;
Brahmanism, 397. (See _Emerson's Poems_,--Brahma.)

Indians:
in history of Concord, 71;
Algonquins, 72.

Inebriation, subject in Monthly Anthology, 30.

Insects, defended, 190.

Inspiration:
of Nature, 22, 96, 141;
urged, 146.

Instinct, from God or Devil, 393.

Intellect, confidence in, 134.

Intuition, 394.

Ipswich, Mass., 3, 4, 8.

Ireland, Alexander:
glimpses of Emerson, 44, 64, 65:
reception, 193,194;
on Carlyle, 196;
letter from Miss Peabody, 317;
quoting Whitman, 344;
quoted, 350.

Irving, Washington, 33.

Italy:
Emerson's first visit, 62, 63;