borrower, 381.

Mathew, Father, disciples, 368.

Mayhew, Jonathan, Boston minister, 51.

Melioration, a characteristic expression, 405.

Mendon, Mass., Joseph Emerson's ministry, 4.

Mephistopheles, Goethe's creation, 208.

Merrimac River, 71.

Metaphysics, indifference to, 249.

Methodism, in Boston, 56.
(See _Father Taylor_.)

Michael Angelo:
allusions, 73, 75;
on external beauty, 99;
course, 260;
filled with God, 284;
on immortality, 290;
times mentioned, 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;