Coleridge, S. T., 91, 119, 290. Colonna, Vittoria, 265. _Columbian Magazine_, W. writes for, 37. Columbus, xx-xxi, 243. See _Prayer of C._ "Columbus, A thought of," 340. Common people, W.'s love of the, 114. Companions, the Great, 168. _Complete Prose_, qu., 47-8. See Footnotes. "Compost, This," 122. Comrade, W. as a, 67; God the perfect, 244. Comrades, a society of, 312. Comradeship, _Calamus_ poems of, 162; political significance of, 163; W. institutes a rite of, 165; philosophy of, 167; W. creates a, 179; _L. of G._ brings to Symonds, 224; universal possibility of, 299-300; W.'s, 133, 149, 168, 196, 228, 232-3, 253, 275, 297. Comte, A., 62, 263. Concord, W. at, 281-2. Concrete, W.'s love for the, 60; quality, W.'s, 198. Coney Island Beach, W. goes to, 40, 57, 154. Confederacy of Southern States adopts a constitution, 175. Consciousness, the unfolding of, 69; the double nature of, 73-4; superhuman elements in, 228; W.'s, 316. See also "Cosmic consciousness". _Conservator_ (Philadelphia), _The_, 300 _n._ Conservative quality of W., 64. Constitution of U.S., xxiii, xxv, 23. Contemporary Club, the, 332. _Contemporary Review_ and W., 258. Conversion, W.'s experience compared with, 70, 72. Conway, Moncure, 93, 110-2, 344. Coolness, W.'s, 66. Cooper, Fenimore, 42, 59; W.'s love for the novels of, 19. "Copperheads," 185. "Cosmic consciousness," W.'s, 52, 117, 119, 168, 224, 333; W.'s experience of, 72-3; influence on style, 150-1, 153-4; Dr. Bucke on, 270. Cotton in the South, 24, 25. Cowper, W., 290. _Crescent, The_, New Orleans, 46. _Criterion, The_, criticism of W., 108. _Critic, The_, criticism of W., 108. Criticisms of Whitman, 171, 222, 224-5, 327-8, 329 _n._, 334-5; by W. 109, 329. Cromwell, O., 121. Croton Water-works, N.Y., 42. "Crucified, To him that was," 167-8, 227. Culpepper, Va., W. visits, 202. Cuba annexation desired, 135. Cuvier, 122. _Daily News_ and W., 258. Dana, C. A., 127. Dancing, W. approves, 43. Dannville, 209. Dante, 57, 109, 164, 226, 318. Dartmouth College, N.H., W. visits, 245. Darwin, C., 62. Davis, Jefferson, 79, 188. Davis, Mary, 305, 318-21, 336. Death, W. and the idea of, 9, 12, 101, 102, 158, 168-9, 242-3, 249, 266, 281, 287, 340-1; immortality and, 152-3, 155; welcome to, 152; W. learns lesson of, 249, 343; in shadow of, 253-4; W.'s, 344; reported, 247. "Death's Valley," 340-1. Declamation, _L. of G._ written for, 98. Declaration of Independence, xxiii, 23. Deliberate way of W. in hospitals, 196; character of W., 204. Democracy in New York, 83. Democracy, W. as, 335. Democracy, dangers of. See _Dem. Vistas_. _Democrat_, W. edits, 37. Democratic party, 13, 23, 40, 79, 82, 136, 172. _Democratic Review_, W. writes for, 33.