204, 222.

Burns, Robert, 213.

Burroughs, John, chronic homesickness, 227, 228.

Cactus, 248.

Carlyle, Thomas, 34, 35, 43, 47, 97;
contrasted with Emerson, 30;
correspondence with Emerson, 39, 40, 61, 80, 81;
on Webster, 61;
as a painter, 76, 77;
Emerson's love and admiration for, 79-82;
his style, 82.

Channing, William Ellery, 2d, 138-40;
in Emerson's Journals, 9, 29, 30, 142;
in Thoreau's Journal, 149.

City, the, 226, 227.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, quoted, 276.

Contrasts, 218-29.

Country, life in the, 226-28.

Critic, the professional, 259, 260.

Criticism, 260.

D., H., quoted, 277.

Dana, Richard Henry, his "Two Years before the Mast," 256-58.

Dargan, Olive Tilford, quoted, 201, 202.

Darwin, Charles, criticism of his selection theories, 172-89, 193-98;
his "Voyage of the Beagle," 189-93;
his significance, 198-200.

Days, memorable, 231.

Death, thoughts on, 285-88.

De Vries, Hugo, his mutation theory, 196, 197.

Discovery, 223-25.

Early and late, 230, 231.

Eating, 77-79.

Edison, Thomas A., 243, 269.

Electricity, 231.

Emerson, Charles, 5.

Emerson, Dr. Edward W., on Thoreau, 155, 156.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 136, 214, 227, 239;
Journals of, discussed, 1-85;
a new estimate of, 1-4;
and social intercourse, 6-8;
self-reliance, 8, 31, 32;
poet and prophet of the moral ideal, 9-11;
his lectures, 11, 12, 64, 65, 162;
his supreme test of men, 12, 13, 17;
his "Days," 14;
his "Humble-Bee," 14;
"Each and All," 15;
"Two Rivers," 15, 16;
on Poe, 16;
on Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," 17;
as a reader and a writer, 17, 18;
his main interests, 18;
on Jesus as a Representative Man, 20;
on Thoreau, 22, 23, 141, 156, 157;
and John Muir, 23, 24;
alertness, 24;
on Matthew Arnold, 25;
on Lowell, 25, 26;
on Alcott, 26-29;
on Father Taylor, 28, 29;
occupied with the future, 30;
his "Song of Nature," 30, 31;
near and far, past and present, 31, 32;
and human sympathy, 32, 33, 38, 39;
"Representative Men," 33;
attitude towards Whitman, 34, 253;
literary estimates, 34, 35;
on Wordsworth, 36;
correspondence with Carlyle, 39, 40;
love of nature, 41-43;
his book "Nature," 41, 43, 88, 89, 230;
his "May-Day," 43;
feeling for profanity and racy speech, 44-48;
humor, 45-48;
thoughts about God, 48-52;
attitude towards science, 52-60;
on Webster, 60-63;
religion, 63, 64