This I know, too: that the grave is not dark or cold to the dead, but only to the living. The light of the eye, the warmth of the body, still exist undiminished in the universe, but in other relations, under other forms. Shall the flower complain because it fades and falls? It has to fall before the fruit can appear. But what is the fruit of the flower of human life? Surely not the grave, as the loose thinking of some seem to imply. The only fruit I can see is in fairer flowers, or a higher type of mind and life that follows in this world, and to which our lives may contribute. The flower of life has improved through the ages--the geologic ages; from the flower of the brute, it has become the flower of the man. You and I perish, but something goes out, or may go out, from us that will help forward a higher type of mankind. To what end? Who knows? We cannot cross-question the Infinite. Something in the universe has eventuated in man, and something has profited by his ameliorations. We must regard him as a legitimate product, and we must look upon death as a legitimate part of the great cycle--an evil only from our temporary and personal point of view, but a good from the point of view of the whole. THE END INDEX Adaptation, 247, 248. Agassiz, Louis, 163. Alchemy, 242, 243. Alcott, Amos Bronson, in Emerson's Journals, 26-29; on Thoreau, 156. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 253. Alphabet, the, 275, 276. American people, the, 252, 253. Amiel, Henri Frederic, 4-6; quoted, 223. Arnim, Elisabeth von, 34, 35. Arnold, Matthew, 213, 250, 260; in Emerson's Journals, 25; on Emerson, 87, 89, 90; his poetry, 209; on poetry, 212. Art, recent "isms" in, 278, 279. Audacity, 261. Aurora borealis, 140, 141. Batavia Kill, 244. Beauty, 98-101, 246, 247, 251, 252. Beecher, Henry Ward, 232. Bent, following one's, 280, 281. Benton, Myron, 26. Bergson, Henri, his "Creative Evolution," revised estimate of, 264-66; and telepathy, 267, 268. Bettina, Goethe's, 34, 35. Bittern, pumping, 135. Boldness, 261. Bouton, Deborah, 244. Bryant, William Cullen, his poetry, 203, 204, 222. Burns, Robert, 213. Burroughs, John, chronic homesickness, 227, 228. Cactus, 248. Carlyle, Thomas, 34, 35, 43, 47, 97; contrasted with Emerson, 30; correspondence with Emerson, 39, 40, 61, 80, 81; on Webster, 61; as a painter, 76, 77; Emerson's love and admiration for, 79-82; his style, 82. Channing, William Ellery, 2d, 138-40; in Emerson's Journals, 9, 29, 30, 142; in Thoreau's Journal, 149. City, the, 226, 227. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, quoted, 276. Contrasts, 218-29. Country, life in the, 226-28. Critic, the professional, 259, 260. Criticism, 260. D., H., quoted, 277. Dana, Richard Henry, his "Two Years before the Mast," 256-58. Dargan, Olive Tilford, quoted, 201, 202. Darwin, Charles, criticism of his selection theories, 172-89, 193-98; his "Voyage of the Beagle," 189-93; his significance, 198-200. Days, memorable, 231.