Middlesex Association, Emerson admitted, 53. Miller's Retrospect, 34. Milton, John: influence in New England, 16; quotation, 24; essay, 73, 75; compared with Emerson, 76, 77; Lycidas, 178; supposed speech, 220; diet, 270, 271; poetic rank, 281; Arnold's citation, Logic, Rhetoric, 315; popularity, 316; quoted, 324; tin pans, 325; inventor of harmonies, 328; Lycidas, 333; Comus, 338; times mentioned, 382; precursor, quotation, 415. Miracles: false impression, 121, 122; and idealism, 146; theories, 191; St. Januarius, 217; objections, 244. (See _Bible, Christ, Religion_, etc.) Modena, Italy, Emerson's visit, 63. Monadnoc, Mount, 70. Montaigne: want of religion, 300; great authority, 380; times quoted, 382. Montesquieu, on immortality, 291. Monthly Anthology: Wm. Emerson's connection, 13, 26; precursor of North American Review, 28, 29; character, 30, 31; Quincy's tribute, 31; Society formed, 32; career, 33; compared with The Dial, 160. Moody Family, of York, Me., 8,10. Morals, in Plutarch, 301. Morison, John Hopkins, on Emerson's preaching, 67. Mormons, 264, 268. Mother-wit, a favorite expression, 404, 405. Motley, John Lothrop, 33, 223. Mount Auburn, strolls, 40. Movement, party of the, 147. Munroe & Co., publishers, 81. Music: church, 306; inaptitude for, 361; great composers, 401. Musketaquid River, 22, 70, 71. Mysticism: unintelligible, 390; Emerson's, 396. Napoleon: allusion, 197; times mentioned, 382. Napoleon III., 225. Nation, The, Emerson's interest in, 348. Native Bias, 288. Nature: in undress, 72; solicitations, 110; not truly studied, 135; great men, 199; tortured, 402. (See _Emerson's Books, Emerson's Essays_, etc.) Negations, to be shunned, 285. New Bedford, Mass., Emerson's preaching, 52, 67. Newbury, Mass., Edward Emerson's deaconship, 8. New England: families, 2, 3, 5; Peter Bulkeley's coming, 6; clerical virtues, 9; Church, 14; literary sky, 33; domestic service, 34, 35; two centres, 52; an ideal town, 70, 71; the Delphi, 72; Carlyle invited, 83; anniversaries, 84; town records, 85; Genesis, 102; effect of Nature, 106; boys and girls, 163; Massachusetts, Connecticut River, 172; lyceums, 192; melancholy, 216; New Englanders and Old, 220; meaning of a word, 296, 297; eyes, 325; life, 325, 335; birthright, 364; a thorough New Englander, 406; Puritan, 409; theologians, 410; Jesus wandering in, 419. (See _America, England_, etc.) Newspapers: defaming the noble, 145; in Shakespeare's day, 204. Newton, Mass.: its minister, 15; Episcopal Church, 68. (See _Rice_.) Newton, Sir Isaac, times quoted, 382.