Self-realisation, gospel of, 148, 253. Self-revelation of W., 264. Semele, 275. Seward, W. H., 79, 172, 175. Sex, W. and, 144-7, 159-62, 167; W.'s expanded conception of, 226; Thoreau puzzled by W.'s view, 115; W.'s experience of, 71; and religion, 70-1; basic in life, 126-7. Shakespeare, xxi, 57, 318. Shelley, P. B., W. indifferent to, 59; compared with, 107-8; also 91, 97, 290, 295. Sherman, Gen., 187; his march to the sea, 188. Ships, W.'s love of, 60, 335-6, 343-4; Yankee clipper, 64. Sin, W.'s attitude toward, 18, 124-5, 151, 156, 161, 255. Skin, rich texture of W.'s, 316. Slavery, 79-81, 135-7; divides North from South, 25; W. and, 103; and Democratic party, 82, see Abolitionism, etc.; S. party and election of 1860, 173-4; and the war, 177; in N.Y., 310-1. Slave-trade, 140. Sleep, W. on, 102. "Sleepers, The," 102, 274. Sleepy Hollow, 301. Smith, Adam, 308. Smith, Mary Whitall. See Mrs. Berenson. Smith, R. Pearsall, 297; relations with W., 301-4; leaves Philadelphia, 325. Smoking, 32. See Tobacco. Social functions, W.'s interest in, 40. Social problem in N.Y., 139-40. Socialism, W. and, 239, 312. Socialist, ideal, the, 308-9, 312; party in America, 311; Socialists, early, 308. Solidarity, of the nation, felt in war-time, 207; of the peoples, 205-6; W.'s feeling for, 239-40, 242-3, 306-7, 337, 343. Solitude, W.'s, 233, 331, 342; compared with Thoreau and Emerson's, 113-4. "So Long," 169. "Sometimes with one I love," 164. "Song of Myself," 122, 243, 286; analysed, 98-101; qu., 72 _n._; called "Walt Whitman," 150. Sophocles, 57. Soul, the flesh and the, in modern religion, 61; and Science, 96, 242; in Nature, 102, 340; W.'s view of the, 98, 120, 149. South, its interests antagonistic to those of the North and West, 24-5; similarity of interest with N.Y., 25; policy, 26, 43; and the war, 82-3, 176-7, 187, 235; slavery and the, 25, 80-1; pride of the, 187, 324; Lincoln and, 189; and the Union, 180, 314; W. and the, 46-55, 180, 235, 237, 349-50. South Carolina, and Federal tariff, 24, 27. Southey, R., 327. "Sovereign States," doctrine of, 26. _Specimen Days_, 262, 266. _Specimen Days and Collect_, 286. Spectacles, W. begins to wear, 245. Speech, W.'s manner of, 98; W.'s style and, 291. Spencer, Herbert, 62, 263. Spirits, W. and, 149. Spiritualistic woman and W., 234. "Spontaneous Me," 127. Spooner, Alden J., 20, 22, 30-1. _Springfield (Mass.) Republican_, 259. Square Deific. See "Chanting the S. D." "Squatter Sovereignty," 44, 79, 80, 134. Stafford family, 260; George, 260-2, 266, 280, 343. Stage-driver, W. as a, 137; stage-drivers of N.Y., 138. See Broadway. Stanton, Mrs. E. C., 126. Stars and Stripes, the, xx, 335.