Massachusetts Institute of Technology, x, 204. "Massachusetts Jemmy," i, 251. Massachusetts Metaphysical College, x, 334. Massillon on preachers and preaching, viii, 168. Masterpiece of God, the, vi, 58. Mathematics, limits of, viii, 173. Mather, Cotton, i, 112, 237; iii, 101; viii, 23. Mather, Increase, ix, 338. Mathews, Charles, the actor, i, 231. Mayas, the, vi, 15. _Mayflower_, sailing of the, iv, 189. _May Queen, The_, Tennyson, v, 78. Mazzini, i, 56; Emerson compared with, ix, 94; Garibaldi and, ix, 94, 101; friend of the Rossettis, ii, 122. Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, ix, 287. Medici, Catherine de, iv, 31. Medici family, expulsion of, from Florence, iv, 32. Medici, Giuliano, Michelangelo's statue of, iv, 32. Medici, Lorenzo de, Michelangelo's statue of, iv, 31. Medici, Marie de, iv, 97; Rubens' pictures of, iv, 176. Medicine, profession of, iii, 99; the science of, xii, 265. _Meditations_, Descartes, viii, 226. _Meditations_, Marcus Aurelius, i, 248; viii, 140. Mediums, spiritual, viii, 174. Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest, French painter, iv, 124; mother of, iv, 125; his passion for collecting, iv, 126; love for his mother, iv, 127; vii, 350; early efforts in painting, iv, 129; marriage of, iv, 131; his artistic conscience, iv, 133; domestic affairs of, iv, 135; his experience with Mrs. J. W. Mackay, iv, 136; his "vindication," iv, 139; his extravagance, iv, 139; _Conversations_ of, iv, 140; his masterpiece, iv, 142; death of, iv, 141; Fortuny compared with, iv, 218; friend of Millet, iv, 282; genius of, iv, 329; other self of, v, 106; pictures by, owned in America, iv, 142; quoted, iv, 218, 330. Melancholy, v, 268; humor and, v, 156. Melania, the Nun of Tagaste, vi, 62. Melchizedek, the order of, ix, 70. Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini, vi, 273. _Memories_, Max Muller, vi, 40. Mendelssohn, Felix, ix, 285; boyhood of, xiv, 164; Mozart compared with, ix, 163; Queen Victoria and, xiv, 181; Thorwaldsen and, vi, 116. Mendelssohn, Moses, on the Ghetto, viii, 223. Men, grown-up children, vii, 350. Mengs, Raphael, on Velasquez, vi, 158. Mennonite, the, ii, 189. Mennonites, the, Napoleon and, viii, 212; Spinoza and, viii, 211. Men of genius, i, 75. Mentation, art of, viii, 355. Mephisto, iii, 233; Disraeli compared with, v, 320. Mephistopheles, referred to, v, 132. Merchandising, old-time methods of, ix, 131. Merchant, age of the, xi, 306. _Merchant of Venice, The_, Shakespeare, i, 317. Meredith, George, ii, 127. _Merlin_, Tennyson, v, 68. _Message to Garcia_, how written, i, p xxix. Messalina, Valeria, wife of Claudius, viii, 62. _Messiah_, Handel, xiv, 269. Messianic instinct, the, v, 109. Metaphysics, x, 344; Kant on, viii, 148. _Metaphysics of Love_, Schopenhauer, viii, 382. Metaphysics, science and theology distinguished from, viii, 267. Methodism, ix, 279; Lecky on, ix, 49; Moravianism and, ix, 32.