Goethe, 98. Gray, Eri, 244. Gray, Thomas, his "Elegy written in a Country Church-yard," 216. Grossmont, Cal., 240. H. D., quoted, 277. Hawaiian Islands, 236. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, and Emerson, 73-75. Hearn, Lafcadio, quoted, 202. Heat, 246. Hermits, 244. Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 253. History, the grand movements of, 249. Homesickness, 227-29. Howells, William Dean, 227; an estimate, 262, 263. Insects, hum of, 244, 245. Invention, 223-26. James, Henry, his hypersensitiveness, 255, 256. James, William, quoted, 234. Journals, 4, 5. Juvenal, quoted, 242. Keator, Ike, 244. Kepler, Johann, quoted, 254. Kidd, Benjamin, his "Social Evolution," 270. Kingsley, Charles, a parable of, 189; and Newman, 261. Knowledge, the Tree of, 248. Lamarck, 280. Landor, Walter Savage, Emerson and, 34, 35, 43. Life, the result of a system of checks and counter-checks, 236, 237. Lincoln, Abraham, 220, 221, 223. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, in Emerson's Journals, 25. Loveman, Robert, his poetry, 204, 205; quoted, 204, 205. Lowell, James Russell, in Emerson's Journals, 25; criticism of Thoreau, 104-11; love of books and of nature, 110, 111; possessed talent but not genius, 223; and Whitman, 253. McCarthy, John Russell, his poems, 204, 208, 223; quoted, 214, 215, 223. Masefield, John, 208. Maui, 236. Meteoric men, 231, 232, 270-72. Milton, John, "Paradise Lost," 260; quoted, 260. Montaigne, 8. Moody, William Vaughn, his poetry, 204-07; quoted, 207. Morgan, Thomas Hunt, on Darwin, 200. Movements, in inert matter, 245. Muir, John, 23. Mutation theory, 196, 197. Natural history, and ethical and poetic values, 54-56. Natural selection, criticism of the theory, 178-89, 193-98. Newspapers, 272-74. "Noa Noa," 278. Old age, the psychology of, 281-85. Oratory, 232, 233. Osborn, Henry Fairfield, on chance in evolution, 175. Palm and fist, 220, 221. Pascal, Blaise, quoted, 233. Permanent, and transient, 218, 219. Phillips, Stephen, 270. Phillips, Wendell, 222, 232; quoted, 221. Poe, Edgar Allan, 203; Emerson on, 16, 74; his poetry, 209-11. Poets, do not efface one another, 250, 251. Poetry, only the best significant, 201; a discussion of, 201-17; B.'s own, 203; and philosophy, 203, 204, 207-09, 260; not sweetened prose put up in verse form, 267; red revolution in, 276-78. Pope, Alexander, 201. Positive and negative, 219, 220. Power, mankind drunk with, 248, 249. Praise, and flattery, 221, 222. Prayer, 233. Quotations, a book of, 261, 262. Rain, creative function of, 236. Rainbow, the, 137, 138. Rashness, 261. Reds of literature and art, the, 276-79. Reed, Sampson, 34, 35. Rhyme, 267. Ripley, Rev. Dr. Ezra, 45, 46. Robertson, Frederick William, 232. Rochefoucauld, quoted, 284. Roosevelt, Theodore, 220, 259, 272. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 179. Sandburg, Carl, quoted, 276, 277. Santayana, George, quoted, 260. Scott, Sir Walter, his poems, 216. Sea, the, 218.