Newton, Stuart, sketches, 130. New World, gospel, 371. (See _America_.) New York: Brevoort House, 246; Genealogical Society, 413. Niagara, visit, 263. Nidiver, George, ballad, 259. Nightingale, Florence, 220. Nithsdale, Eng., mountains, 78. Non-Resistance, 141. North American Review: its predecessor, 28, 29, 33; the writers, 34; Emerson's contributions, 73; Ethics, 294, 295; Bryant's article, 328. Northampton, Mass., Emerson's preaching, 53. Norton, Andrews: literary rank, 34; professorship, 52. Norton, Charles Eliot: editor of Correspondence, 82; on Emerson's genius, 373. Old Manse, The: allusion, 70; fire, 271-279. (See _Concord_.) Oliver, Daniel, in Dartmouth College, 132. Optimism: in philosophy, 136; "innocent luxuriance," 211; wanted by the young, 373. Oriental: genius, 120; spirit in Emerson, 179. Orpheus, allusion, 319. Paine, R.T., JR., quoted, 31. Palfrey, John Gorham: literary rank, 34; professorship, 52. Pan, the deity, 140. Pantheism: in Wordsworth and Nature, 103; dreaded, 141; Emerson's, 410, 411. Paris, Trance: as a residence, 78; allusion, 167; salons, 184; visit, 196, 308. Parker, Theodore: a right arm of freedom, 127; at a party, 149; The Dial, 159, 160; editorship, 193; death, 228; essence of Christianity, 306; biography, 368; on Emerson's position, 411. Parkhurst, John, studied at Andover, 48. Parr, Samuel, allusion, 28. Past, party of the, 147. Peabody, Andrew Preston, literary rank, 34. Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer: her Aesthetic Papers, 88; letter to Mr. Ireland, 317. Peirce, Benjamin, mathematician, 223. Pelagianisin, 51. (See _Religion_.) Pepys, Samuel, allusion, 12. Pericles, 184, 253. Persia, poetic models, 338. (See _Emerson's Poems, Saadi_). Pessimism, 286. (See _Optimism_). Philadelphia, Pa., society, 184. Philanthropy, activity in 1820, 147. Philolaus, 199. Pie, fondness for, 269. Pierce, John: the minister of Brookline, 11; "our clerical Pepys," 12. Pindar, odes, 253. (See _Greek, Homer_, etc.) Plagiarism, 205, 206, 287, 288, 384. (See _Quotations, Mather_, etc.) Plato: influence on Mary Emerson, 16, 17; over Emerson, 22, 52, 173, 188, 299, 301; youthful essay, 74; Alcott's study, 150; reading, 197; borrowed thought, 205, 206; Platonic idea, 222; a Platonist, 267; saints of Platonism, 298; academy inscription, 365; great authority, 380; times quoted, 382; Symposium and Phaedrus quoted, 387; _tableity_, preëxistence, 391; Diogenes dialogue, 401; a Platonist, 411. (See _Emerson's Books_, and _Essays, Greek_, etc.)