, 32, 98, 142, 164, 255

Body, a thinking machine, 80
delicacy of sensation, 80
evolution, 81
its needs as stimuli, 88
channel of knowledges, 88
system of moral registration, 92

Books and reading, 233
increase of power of vision, 238
show men at their best, 239
tools for the mind, 240
multiply brain forces, 242
preserve the spirit of great men, 243
give information, 246
show unity of progress, 249
choice of books, 250

Brooks, Phillips, 44, 254

Brown, John, 58

Browning, Mrs., 248

Bulwer Lytton, 135

Bunyan, 114

Burns, 158, 294

Byron, 48, 188, 198, 250

Cadmus, 16

Caird, 84

Capital, original, 13

Carlyle, 76, 214, 234, 239, 255

Castelar, 40

Channing, 192, 225, 234

Character, 31, 44
defined, 34
materials of, 34

Charles IX., 203

Clay, 154, 262

Climate, effect on race, 16

Coleridge, 47, 132, 200, 293

Columbus, 56, 152

Confucius, 32

Conscience and Character, 187
working of conscience, 191, 201
uses and functions, 199
standard, 199
relation to judgment, 200
influence on memory, 201
in daily life, 202
commercial, 205
emotional, 208
to the past, 209

Contrasts and extremes, teachers, 47

Cooper, Peter, 177

Cranmer, 145

Cromwell, 39, 40, 100

Curtis, Geo. Wm., 23

Dana, 84

Dante, 21, 78, 129, 150, 165, 198, 215, 312, 318

David, 48, 165

Death, 95

Demosthenes, 198

De Tocqueville, 126

Dickens, 106

Distribution of ability in U.S., 22

Dore, 124

Douglass, Frederick, 223

Dreams, 64

Drummond, 82, 84

Dwight's dictum, 15

Edison, 169, 304

Elements of worth in individual, 9

Eliot, Geo., 178, 196, 222

Emerson, 13, 31, 34, 42, 98, 103, 122, 150, 164

Enthusiasm, 168
of friendship, 165

Epictetus, 174

Evolution, 82

External world a teacher, 37

Faraday, 248

Fiske, 94

Friendship, 163
secret of eminence, 173
refining, 178

Froude, 172

Garibaldi, 171, 184

Gladstone, 43, 69

Goethe, 151

Grant, 184

Greeley, 33

Guttenberg printing press, 82

Hamilton, 133, 201

Handel, 153

Harrison, Frederic, 234, 250, 314

Hawthorne, 107

Health, 75

Helps, Arthur, 253

Heredity, 130

Herod, 189

Heroes raised up to teach men, 58, 59

Hoe, printing press, 82

Holland, J.G., 23

Holmes, O.W., 13

Homer, 60, 312

Hugo, 193

Huss, 145, 150

Huxley, 76

Ideals, teachers, 49

Ignorance, 19, 31

Imagination, 141