Page 414, note 1. The doctrine of the " Compensation," in the first series of Essays.

Page 416, note 1. As modesty is the cardinal virtue of woman, so Mr. Emerson held that

"Composure

Is the pudency of man."

"The Poet," Poems, Appendix.

GENERAL INDEX

THE following list gives the titles of the volumes to which

the Roman numerals in this Index refer:

I. NATURE, ADDRESSES AND Lectures.

II. ESSAYS, FIRST SERIES.

III. ESSAYS, SECOND SERIES

IV. REPRESENTATIVE MEN.

V. ENGLISH TRAITS.

VI. CONDUCT OF LIFE.

VII. SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE.

VIII. LETTERS AND SOCIAL AIMS.

IX. POEMS.

X. LECTURES AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

XI. MISCELLANIES.

XII. NATURAL HISTORY OF Intellect.

GENERAL INDEX

[Titles of Essays and Poems are printed in small capitals.]

Abandonment, no greatness with- |
out, vII. 49, 181; the way of life,
11. 321.

Abdel Kader, and Daumas, vII. 271;

on nobility, vi. 176.

Able men, have respect for justice, 1.
165; ask only for ability, iv. 268.
Abolition, bigot in, 11. 51; the church
appears in, H. 251; church hos-
tile to, X. 114; shadow of Clark-
son, 11. 61; conventions, 11. 135;
effect of, x1. 100; transcendental-
ists and, 1. 348, 349.
Abolitionist, every man an, x1. 250,
354; farmer the true, vII. 141;
love the arch-, xi. 281; made by
slavery, x1. 281...

Aboriginal man, not engaging, viii.
270.

Aboriginal power, 11. 358; VI. 72.
Aboriginal races, incapable of im-
provement, XII. 26.

Aboriginal, the State not, 111. 199.
Absolute and relative, Iv. 149.
Absolve you to yourself, 11. 50.
Abstemious, of criticism, vII. 180;

spirit's teachings are, Iv. 139.
Abstemiousness, quiddling, vi. 154.
Abstinence, 1. 215, 251.
Abstract truth, 11. 326, 331.
Abstraction, of scholars, vi. 156; vin.
288.

Abstractionists, Nature furnishes,

III. 237; IV. 154, 155.
Absurdity, difference from me, the
measure of, IV. 24. -
Abu Ali Seena, iv. 95.
Abu Taleb, vi. 273; IX. 302.
Abul Khain, iv. 95.

Abury, temple at, v. 278, 281.
Abuses, block ways to employments,
· I. 234.'

Acorn, thousand forests in one, II. 4.
Acquaintances, high, the great hap-
piness of life, vii. 306.
Acquainted, be not too much, I.
137.

Acre, cleave to thine, vi. 244; my,
.IX. 143.

Acres, black, of the night, 1x. 342;

mystic fruit, IX. 145; sitfast, IX. 36.
Acrostic, a character like, 11. 58,
148.

Action, Actions, honest and natural
agree, 11. 58; preëxist in the actor,
III. 97; not over-doing and busy-
ness, x. 267; not cowed by the
name of, 11. 163; dispose to greater
conclusions, III. 194; tends to di-
versity, Iv. 51; of infinite elastic-
ity, 11. 164; not rashly explained,
III. 108; in life, few, x11. 412; fu-
ture not to be decided beforehand,
XI. 169; what are called good, 11.
53; great do not let us go behind
them, 11. 250; heroic, are beauti-
ful, 1. 19; not indifferent, 11. 120,
317; independent, rare, x. 229;
their influence not measured by