Hunt, Leigh, meeting Emerson, 195. Hunt, William, the painter, 223. Idealism, 98-100, 146, 150. Idealists: Ark full, 191; Platonic sense, 391. Imagination: the faculty, 141; defined, 237, 238; essay, 283; coloring life, 324. Imbecility, 231. Immortality, 262. (See _God, Religion_, etc.) Incompleteness, in poetry, 339. India: poetic models, 338; idea of preëxistence, 391; Brahmanism, 397. (See _Emerson's Poems_,--Brahma.) Indians: in history of Concord, 71; Algonquins, 72. Inebriation, subject in Monthly Anthology, 30. Insects, defended, 190. Inspiration: of Nature, 22, 96, 141; urged, 146. Instinct, from God or Devil, 393. Intellect, confidence in, 134. Intuition, 394. Ipswich, Mass., 3, 4, 8. Ireland, Alexander: glimpses of Emerson, 44, 64, 65: reception, 193,194; on Carlyle, 196; letter from Miss Peabody, 317; quoting Whitman, 344; quoted, 350. Irving, Washington, 33. Italy: Emerson's first visit, 62, 63; Naples, 113. Jackson, Charles, garden, 38. Jackson, Dr. Charles Thomas, anaesthesia, 403. Jackson, Miss Lydia, reading Carlyle, 81. (See _Mrs. Emerson_.) Jahn, Johann, studied at Andover, 48. Jameson, Anna, new book, 131. Jesus: times mentioned, 382; a divine manifestation, 411; followers, 417; and Emerson, 419. (See _Bible, Christ, Church, Religion_, etc.) Joachim, the violinist, 225, 226. Johnson, Samuel, literary style, 29. Jonson, Ben: poetic rank, 281; a phrase, 300; _traduction_, 393. (See _Heredity_, etc.) Journals, as a method of work, 384. Jupiter Scapin, 207. Jury Trial, and dinners, 216. Justice, the Arch Abolitionist, 306. Juvenal: allusion, 22; precept from heaven, 252. Kalamazoo, Mich., allusion, 388. Kamschatka, allusion, 167. Keats, John: quoted, 92; Ode to a Nightingale, 316; _faint, swoon_, 405. King, the, illustration, 74. Kirkland, John Thornton: Harvard presidency, 26, 52; memories, 27. Koran, allusion, 198. (See _Bible, God, Religion_, etc.) Labor: reform, 141; dignity, 142. Lacenaire, evil instinct, 392. Laertius, Diogenes, 390, 391. La Harpe, Jean Francois, on Plutarch, 301. Lamarck, theories, 166. Lamb, Charles, Carlyle's criticism, 196. Landor, Walter Savage, meeting Emerson, 63. Landscape, never painted, 339, 240. (See _Pictures, etc_.) Language: its symbolism, 95-97; an original, 394. Latin: Peter Bulkeley's scholarship, 7; translation, 24, 25; Emerson's Translations, 43, 44. Laud, Archbishop, 6. Law, William, mysticism, 396. Lawrence, Mass., allusion, 44. Lecturing, given up, 295. (See _Emerson's Essays, Lectures_, etc.) Leibnitz, 386. Leroux, Pierre, preëxistance, 391. Letters, inspiration, 289.