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shall see it everywhere. Look within, with pure eyes and simple trust, and you shall find the Deity mirrored in your own soul. Trust yourself because you trust the voice of God in your inmost consciousness.
There are living organisms so transparent that we can see their hearts beating and their blood flowing through their glassy tissues. So transparent was the life of Emerson; so clearly did the true nature of the man show through it. What he taught others to be, he was himself. His deep and sweet humanity won him love and reverence everywhere among those whose natures were capable of responding to the highest manifestations of character. Here and there a narrow-eyed sectary may have avoided or spoken ill of him; but if He who knew what was in man had wandered from door to door in New England as of old in Palestine, we can well believe that one of the thresholds which "those blessed feet" would have crossed, to hallow and receive its welcome, would have been that of the lovely and quiet home of Emerson.
[For many references, not found elsewhere, see under the general headings of Emerson's Books, Essays, Poems.]
ABBOTT, JOSIAH GARDINER, a pupil of Emerson, 49, 50.
Academic Races, 2, 3. (See Hered- ity.)
Action, subordinate, 112. Adams, John, old age, 261. Adams, Samuel, Harvard debate, 115.
Addison, Joseph, classic, 416. Advertiser, The, Emerson's interest in, 348.
Eolian Harp, his model, 329, 340. (See Emerson's Poems, - Harp.) Eschylus, tragedies, 253. (See Greek.)
Agassiz, Louis: Saturday Club, 222; companionship, 403. Agriculture in Anthology, 30; at- tacked, 190; not Emerson's field, 255, 256, 365. Akenside, Mark, allusion, 16. Alchemy, adepts, 260, 261. Alcott, A. Bronson: hearing Emer- son, 66; speculations, 86; an ideal- ist, 150; The Dial, 159; sonnet, 355; quoted, 373; personality traceable, 389.
Alcott, Louisa M., funeral bouquet, 351.
Alexander the Great: allusion, 184; mountain likeness, 322. Alfred the Great, 220, 306. Allston, Washington, unfinished pic- ture, 334. (See Pictures.) Ambition, treated in Anthology, 30. America: room for a poet, 136, 137;
virtues and defects, 143; faith in, 179; people compared with Eng- lish, 216; things awry, 260; aris- tocracy, 296; in the Civil War, 304; Revolution, 305; Lincoln, the true history of his time, 307; passion for, 308, 309; artificial rhythm,
329; its own literary style, 342 home of man, 371; loyalty to, 406; epithets, 406, 407. (See England, New England, etc.) Amici, meeting Emerson, 63. Italy.) Amusements, in New England, 30. Anæmia, artistic, 334.
Ancestry in general, 1-3; Emer- son's, 3 et seq. (See Heredity.) Andover, Mass.: Theological School, 48; graduates, 411.
Andrew, John Albion: War Gov- ernor, 223; hearing Emerson, 379. (See South.)
Angelo. (See Michael Angelo.) Antinomianism: in The Dial, 162;
kept from, 177. (See God, Reli- gion, etc.)
Anti-Slavery in Emerson's pulpit, 57; the reform, 141, 145, 152; Emancipation address, 181; Bos- ton and New York addresses, 210- 212; Emancipation Proclamation, 228; Fugitive Slave Law, and other matters, 303–307. (See South.) Antoninus, Marcus, allusion, 16. Architecture, illustrations, 253. Arianism, 51. (See Unitarianism.) Aristotle : influence over Mary Emerson, 17; times mentioned, 382.
Arminianism, 51. (See Methodism, Religion, etc.)
Arnim, Gisela von, 225. Arnold, Matthew: quotation about America, 137: lecture, 236; on Milton, 315; his Thyrsis, 333; criticism, 334; string of Emerson's epithets, 406.
Aryans, comparison, 312. Asia: a pet name, 176; immovable, 200.
Assabet River, 70, 71. Astronomy: Harp illustration, 108; stars against wrong, 252, 253. (See Galileo, Stars, Venus, etc.) Atlantic Monthly: sketch of Dr. Ripley, 14, 15; of Mary Moody Emerson, 16; established, 221; supposititious club, 222; on Per- sian Poetry, 224; on Thoreau, 228; Emerson's contributions, 239, 241; Brahma, 296.
Atmosphere: effect on inspiration, 290; spiritual, 413, 414. Augustine, Emerson's study of,
Authors, quoted by Emerson, 381- 383. (See Plutarch, etc.)
BACON, FRANCIS: allusion, 22, 111; times quoted, 382.
Bancroft, George: literary rank, 33; in college, 45.
Barbier, Henri Auguste, on Napo- leon, 208.
Barnwell, Robert W.: in history, 45; in college, 47.
Beaumont and Fletcher, disputed, line, 128, 129.
Beauty its nature, 74, 94, 95; an end, 99, 135, 182; study, 301. Beecher, Edward, on preexistence, 391. (See Prečxistence.) Behmen, Jacob: mysticism, 201, 202, 396; citation, 380. Berkeley, Bishop: characteristics, 189; matter, 300. Bible Mary Emerson's study, 16; Mosaic cosmogony, 18; the Exo- dus, 35; the Lord's Supper, 58; Psalms, 68, 181, 182, 253; lost Par- adise, 101; Genesis, Sermon on the Mount, 102; Seer of Patmos, 102, 103; Apocalypse, 105; Song of Songs, 117; Baruch's roll, 117, 118; not closed, 122; the Sower, 154; Noah's Ark, 191; Pharisee's trumpets, 255; names and imag- ery, 268; sparing the rod, 297; rhythmic mottoes, 314; beauty of Israel, 351; face of an angel, 352; barren fig-tree, 367; a classic, 376; body of death, "Peace be still! " 379; draught of fishes, 381; its semi-detached sentences, 405; Job quoted, 411; "the man Christ Jesus," 412; scattering abroad, 414. (See Christ, God, Religion, etc.)
Bigelow, Jacob, on rural cemeteries, 31.
Bliss, Daniel, patriotism, 72. Blood, transfusion of, 256. Books, use and abuse, 110, 111. (See Emerson's Essays.)
Boston, Mass.: First Church, 10, 12, 13; Woman's Club, 16; Harbor, 19; nebular spot, 25, 26; its pul- pit darling, 27; Episcopacy, 28; Athenæum, 31; magazines, 28-34; intellectual character, lights on its three hills, high caste religion, 34; Samaria and Jerusalem, 35; streets and squares, 37-39; Latin School, 39, 40, 43; new buildings, 42; Mrs. Emerson's boarding-house, the Common as a pasture, 43; Unita- rian preaching, 51; a New England centre, 52; Emerson's settlement, 54; Second Church, 55-61; lec- tures, 87, 88, 191; Trimount Ora- cle, 102; stirred by the Divinity- School address, 126; school-keep- ing, Roxbury, 129; æsthetic soci- ety, 149; Transcendentalists, 155, 156; Bay, 172; Freeman Place Chapel, 210: Saturday Club, 221- 223; Burns Centennial, 224, 225; Parker meeting, 228; letters, 263, 274, 275; Old South lecture, 294; Unitarianism, 298; Emancipation Proclamation, 307; special train, 350; Sons of Liberty, 369; birth- place, 407; Baptists, 413. Boswell, James: allusion, 138; one
lacking, 223; Life of Johnson, 268. Botany, 403. (See Science.) Bowen, Francis: literary rank, 34; on Nature, 103, 104. Brook Farm, 159, 164-166, 189, 191.
(See Transcendentalism, etc.) Brown, Howard N., prayer, 355. Brown, John, sympathy with, 211. (See Anti-Slavery, South.) Brownson, Orestes A., at a party, 149.
Bryant, William Cullen: his literary
rank, 33; redundant syllable, 328; his translation of Homer quoted, 378.
Buckminster, Joseph Stevens: min- ister in Boston, 12, 26, 27, 52; Memoir, 29; destruction of Gol- dau, 31. Buddhism: like Transcendentalism, 151; Buddhist nature, 188; saints
298. (See Emerson's Poems, - Brahma, India, etc.) Buffon, on style, 341. Bulkeley Family, 4-7.
Bulkeley, Peter: minister of Con- cord, 4-7, 71; comparison of ser- mons, 57; patriotism, 72; land- owner, 327.
Bunyan, John, quoted, 169. Burke, Edmund: essay, 73; times mentioned, 382.
Burns, Robert: festival, 224, 225 rank, 281; image referred to, 386; religious position, 409. (See Scot- land.)
Burroughs, John, view of English life, 335.
Burton, Robert, quotations, 109, 381.
Buttrick, Major, in the Revolution, 71, 72.
Byron, Lord: allusion, 16; rank, 281; disdain, 321; uncertain sky, 335; parallelism, 399.
CABOT, J. ELLIOT on Emerson's lit- erary habits, 27; The Dial, 159; prefaces, 283, 302; Note, 295, 296; Prefatory Note, 310, 311; the last meetings, 347, 348. Cæsar, Julius, 184, 197. California, trip, 263-271, 359. (See Thayer.)
Calvin, John: his Commentary, 103; used by Cotton, 286. Calvinism: William Emerson's want of sympathy with, 11, 12; out- grown, 51; predestination, 230; saints, 298; spiritual influx, 412. (See God, Puritanism, Religion, Unitarianism.)
Cambridge, Mass.: Emerson teach- ing there, 50: exclusive circles, 52. (See Harvard University.) Cant, disgust with, 156. Carlyle, Thomas: meeting Emerson, 63; recollections of their rela- tions, 78-80, 83; Sartor Resartus, 81, 82, 91; correspondence, 82, 83, 89, 90, 127, 176, 177, 192, 315, 317, 374, 380, 381, 406, 407; Life of Schiller, 91; on Nature, 104, 105; Miscellanies, 130; the Waterville Address, 136-138; influence, 149, 150; on Transcendentalism, 156- 158; The Dial, 160-163; Brook Farm, 164; friendship, 171; Chel- sea visit, 194; bitter legacy, 196; love of power, 197; on Napoleon and Goethe, 208; grumblings, 260;
tobacco, 270; Sartor reprinted, 272; paper on, 294; Emerson's dying friendship, 349; physique, 363; Gallic fire, 386; on Charac- teristics, 387; personality trace- able, 389.
Carpenter, William B., 230. Century, The, essay in, 295. Cerebration, unconscious, 112, 113. Chalmers, Thomas, preaching, 65. Channing, Walter, headache, 175,
Channing, William Ellery: allusion, 16; directing Emerson's studies, 51; preaching, 52; Emerson in his pulpit, 66; influence, 147, 149; kept awake, 157. Channing, William Ellery, the poet: his Wanderer, 263; Poems, 403. Channing, William Henry: allu- sions, 131, 149; in The Dial, 159; the Fuller Memoir, 209; Ode in- scribed to, 211, 212.
Charleston, S. C., Emerson's preach- ing, 53. (See South.) Charlestown, Mass., Edward Emer- son's residence, 8. Charles V., 197. Charles XII., 197.
Chatelet, Parent du, a realist, 326. Chatham, Lord, 255.
Chaucer, Geoffrey: borrowings, 205; rank, 281; honest rhymes, 340; times mentioned, 382. Chelmsford, Mass., Emerson teach- ing there, 49, 50.
Chemistry, 403. (See Science.) Cheshire, its "haughty hill," 323. Choate, Rufus, oratory, 148. Christ: reserved expressions about, 13; mediatorship, 59; true office, 120-122; worship, 412. (See Jesus, Religion, etc.) 13;
Christianity: its essentials, primitive, 35; a mythus, defects, 121; the true, 122; two benefits, 123; authority, 124; incarnation of, 176; the essence, 306; Fathers, 391.
Christian, Emerson a, 267. Christian Examiner, The: on Wil- liam Emerson, 12; its literary predecessor, 29; on Nature, 103, 104 repudiates Divinity School Address, 124.
Church: activity in 1820, 147; avoid- ance of, 153; the true, 244; music, 306. (See God, Jesus, Religion, etc.)
Cicero, allusion, 111.
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