Emerson, Ralph Waldo, and the Brook Farm, viii, 402; and Concord, viii, 405; Bronson Alcott and, xi, 392; Carlyle and, ii, 286; vi, 155; Carlyle's letter to, iii, 184; Darwin compared with, xii, 203; _Essay on Compensation_, xii, 261; Confucius compared with, x, 51; favorite book of, ix, 376; Hypatia compared with, x, 280; influence of, on John Tyndall, xii, 349; as a lecturer, v, 26; Mazzini compared with, ix, 94; William Morris' estimate of, v, 32; on astronomy, xii, 116; on beauty, xiii, 211; on commerce, ix, 130; on eloquence, ix, 104; on knowledge, vii, 322; on Nature, x, 306; on originality, xii, 407; on Theodore Parker, ix, 301; on Wendell Phillips, vii, 413; on place and power, vi, 168; on plain living, xiii, 251; on Plato, viii, 31; on slavery, vii, 393; on the soul, viii, 403; on Swedenborg, viii, 177; on Thoreau, viii, 408; on truth, xiv, 333; Robert Owen and, xii, 349; Theodore Parker compared with, ix, 279, 292; Theodore Parker's lecture on, ix, 274; Wendell Phillips on, xiii, 171; quoted, i, 242, 267, 341; ii, 76, 285; iii, 108; iv, 7, 128, 259; v, 12, 79, 98, 158, 248; vi, 65, 95; vii, 309; viii, 305; ix, 61; x, 339; xi, 14; xiii, 89; referred to, i, p vi; i, 55, 90, 223; iv, 253; v, 294; Seneca compared with, viii, 56; Shelley compared with, ii, 287; Socrates and, viii, 16; Thoreau and, viii, 397; George Francis Train on, vii, 325. _Emile_, Rousseau, vii, 207; ix, 371; xiii, 85. Emilian Highway, the, vi, 226. Emmett, Robert, Southey to, v, 264. Empire State Express, i, p xxx. Endless punishment as a doctrine, viii, 357. _Endymion_, Disraeli, v, 342. Enemies, the uses of, xii, 18. Energy, example of, i, 339. Energy, universal, v, 123. England, colonies of, x, 131; freedom in, vi, 146; freedom of speech in, ix, 175; Greece compared with, vii, 35; the heart of, i, 308; a nation of shop-keepers, ii, 207; the people of, x, 130; rural, ii, 240; settlement of, by the Engles and Saxons, x, 132; of Shakespeare, i, 301; Spain and, in the 16th century, iv, 81. _English Bards and Scotch Reviewers_, Byron, v, 218; vi, 329. _English Idylls_, Tennyson, v, 81. _English Literature_, Taine, xiii, 171. _English Note-Book_, Voltaire, viii, 297. _English Settlements in North America_, Burke, vii, 172. _English Traits_, Emerson, viii, 297. Enlightenment, age of, viii, 271. _Enquiry Into the Present State of Polite_ _Learning in Europe_, Goldsmith's first book, i, 293. Entail, law of, v, 70. Enthusiasm, vii, 319; x, 242. Environment, ii, 189; iii, 56; xiii, 215; force of, iv, 332; influence of, xi, 335. Epictetus, viii, 119; compared with Walt Whitman, i, 170. Epigram, definition of, x, 52. Epitaphs, i, 158; iv, 86; v, 159. Epochs in life, three great, ix, 66. Epworth League, referred to, ii, 137. Epworth parsonage, birthplace of John Wesley, ix, 16. Equanimity, x, 58; xiii, 84.