Colleges, in America, xii, 244; the small college, x, 240; education, worth of, iv, 128; college training, xii, 241; Thoreau on, viii, 397. Collins, William, on Dean Swift, i, 151; referred to, iii, 37. Collyer, Rev. Robert, James Oliver and, xi, 79; Philip D. Armour and, xi, 185. _Cologne--Evening_, Turner's painting, i, 135. Colonia Agrippina, viii, 67. Colonial "broadsides," ix, 74. Colosseum, Rome, i, 317. _Colosseum, The_, Corot, vi, 188. Columbus, Christopher, vi, 50; xii, 144. Comedy, v, 240. Come-outers, ii, 189; ix, 318. Comets, iv, 331. Commerce, Cobden on, ix, 128; Emerson on, ix, 130. _Common Sense_, Thomas Paine, ix, 157. Communists, classes of, xi, 42. Companionship, xiv, 110; spiritual, v, 227. Compasses, proportional, xii, 64. _Compensation_, Emerson's essay on, xii, 261. Compensation, law of, ii, 238; iv, 226; vii, 349; xi, 149; xiv, 41. Competition, xiii, 247; co-operation and, v, 23. Complacency, i, 237. _Compromise_, Morley, vii, 17. Comte, Auguste, ii, 86; marriage of, viii, 250; insanity of, viii, 255; teachings of, ii, 86; Clothilde de Vaux and, viii, 264; Benjamin Franklin and, viii, 246; Harriet Martineau and, viii, 257; John Stuart Mill and, viii, 257; Napoleon and, viii, 242; Saint Simon and, viii, 247, 277; Alexander von Humboldt and, viii, 254. _Comus_, Milton, v, 137. Condorcet, Marquis de, viii, 241. Confessional, the, iv, 339; need of, v, 86. _Confessions_ of St. Augustine, vi, 273. _Confessions_, Rousseau, i, 55; ix, 376. Confidence, v, 238. Confucius, Emerson compared with, x, 51; Socrates compared with, x, 50, 60; contemporaries of, x, 44; influence of, x, 43; mother of, x, 59; Lao-tsze and, x, 63. Congregationalism, ix, 279. Congregational singing, vii, 338. Congregational societies, ix, 297. Congreve on Addison, v, 252; Voltaire and, viii, 295. _Coningsby_, Disraeli, v, 341. _Conjugal Love_, Swedenborg, viii, 191. Conkling, Roscoe, as an orator, vii, 22. Conklin, James C., friend of Lincoln, iii, 288. Connecticut policy, the, v, 173. Connecticut, Washington on, iii, 27. _Connestabile Madonna_, Raphael, vi, 27. Conotancarius, Indian name of Washington, iii, 17. Consanguinity, v, 295. Conscience, the artistic, iv, 133. Constable, the English painter, iv, 318; influence of, on Corot, vi, 201. Constant, Benjamin, writer and politician, ii, 178. Constantine the Great, xi, 131; composite religion of, ix, 279. _Contarini Fleming_, Disraeli, v, 324. _Contes Drolatiques_, Dore's illustrations of, iv, 338. Convent life, advantages of, vi, 227. _Conversations_ of Meissonier, iv, 118, 140. _Conversion of St. Paul_, Michelangelo, iv, 34. Conway, Rev. Moncure D., ix, 243; life of Thomas Paine by, xi, 100. Cook, Captain, ix, 164; xi, 214. Cook's tourists, i, 100; v, 284. Co-operation, ix, 225; competition and, v, 23. Co-operative stores, xi, 47.