Death, thoughts on, 285-88. De Vries, Hugo, his mutation theory, 196, 197. Discovery, 223-25. Early and late, 230, 231. Eating, 77-79. Edison, Thomas A., 243, 269. Electricity, 231. Emerson, Charles, 5. Emerson, Dr. Edward W., on Thoreau, 155, 156. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 136, 214, 227, 239; Journals of, discussed, 1-85; a new estimate of, 1-4; and social intercourse, 6-8; self-reliance, 8, 31, 32; poet and prophet of the moral ideal, 9-11; his lectures, 11, 12, 64, 65, 162; his supreme test of men, 12, 13, 17; his "Days," 14; his "Humble-Bee," 14; "Each and All," 15; "Two Rivers," 15, 16; on Poe, 16; on Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," 17; as a reader and a writer, 17, 18; his main interests, 18; on Jesus as a Representative Man, 20; on Thoreau, 22, 23, 141, 156, 157; and John Muir, 23, 24; alertness, 24; on Matthew Arnold, 25; on Lowell, 25, 26; on Alcott, 26-29; on Father Taylor, 28, 29; occupied with the future, 30; his "Song of Nature," 30, 31; near and far, past and present, 31, 32; and human sympathy, 32, 33, 38, 39; "Representative Men," 33; attitude towards Whitman, 34, 253; literary estimates, 34, 35; on Wordsworth, 36; correspondence with Carlyle, 39, 40; love of nature, 41-43; his book "Nature," 41, 43, 88, 89, 230; his "May-Day," 43; feeling for profanity and racy speech, 44-48; humor, 45-48; thoughts about God, 48-52; attitude towards science, 52-60; on Webster, 60-63; religion, 63, 64; self-criticism, 65-67; "Terminus," 67; catholicity, 67-70; on the Bible, 70; his selection of words, 70, 71; ideas but no doctrines, 71, 72; his limitations, 73-75; and Hawthorne, 73-75; a painter of ideas, 76, 77; on eating and the artist, 77; love and admiration for Carlyle, 79-82; hungered for the quintessence of things, 84; the last result of Puritanism, 85; an estimate of, 86-92; attitude towards poverty, 89; weak in logic, 91; passion for analogy, 92; false notes in rhetoric, 92-94; speaking with authority, 95; at the Holmes breakfast, 95, 96; his face, 96; criticisms of, 96-101; on beauty, 98, 99; last words on, 102; compared with Thoreau, 126; intercourse with Thoreau, 156-58; incident related by Thoreau, 158; on Walter Scott, 216; on oratory, 232; a New England Thomas a Kempis, 261; old age, 284, 285. Esopus, N. Y., 244. Ethical standards, 233. Everett, Edward, 223. Evolution, and the Darwinian theory, 174-89, 193-98; chance in, 175-81; the mutation theory, 196, 197; Bergson reread, 264-66; evolution of the doctrine, 279, 280. Farm, the home, 227, 228. Fist, the, 220, 221. Flagg, Wilson, Thoreau on, 165, 166. Flattery, 221, 222. Flowers, fadeless, 231. Fort Myers, 243. Fox, 135, 136. Fuller, Margaret, 7. Genius, and talent, 222, 223. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 280. Germans, the, 3, 4. Gilchrist, Anne, on Emerson, 88. God, Emerson's idea of, 48-52; Nature's, 233, 234.