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INDEX 



tween Natural and Revealed Re- 

 ligion., 92. 

 Byron, Lord, 69. 



Carlyle, Thomas, his debt to sci- 

 ence, 78, 79 ; his Spiritual Optics^ 

 78 ; 81 ; compared and contrasted 

 with Matthew Arnold, 84^-87, 93 ; 

 90 ; Arnold's criticism of, 129- 

 132, 143 ; an unclassical writer, 

 130, 131 ; 138 ; a great writer, 139 ; 

 his histories, 139-141, 146; his 

 Oliver Cromwell^ 141 ; his Fred- 

 erick tJie Great, 141, 146 ; his style, 

 141-143 ; his lAfe of John Ster- 

 ling^ 142 ; his attitude towards 

 happiness, 143 ; not a typical lit- 

 erary man, 150 ; 151, 155, 156 ; his 

 heroic sorrow, 160, 161 ; his ser- 

 vice to his age and country, 162 ; 

 168; compared and contrasted 

 with Dr. Johnson, 198-206; his 

 imagination, 200, 201 ; his despair, 

 201, 202; 238, 255; quotations 

 from, 85, 86, 156, 160, 161, 203, 

 213-2] 5. 



Catholicism, Matthew Arnold on, 

 100, 101, 112-116. 



Chewink, or towhee {Pipilo ery- 

 throphthal7nus)y 175. 



Christianity, 95 ; Matthew Arnold 

 on, 102-105, 125. 



Church, the English, Matthew Ar- 

 nold on, 100 ; 108. See Catholi- 

 cism, Protestantism, and Puritan- 

 ism. 



City, the, 218. 



Cock, crowing of the, 28. 



Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 69, 204. 



Cowley, Abraham, his essays, 164 ; 

 a lover of solitude, 223, 224 ; quo- 

 tations from, 224. 



Culture, Arnold's idea of, 94. 



Darwin, Charles, 51, 52 ; full of the 

 sentiment of science, 55-57 ; 150, 

 193, 194. 



DeKay, Charles, 71. 



De Quincey, Thomas, 179. 



Dixon, Hepworth, 126. 



Dragon-fly, in Tennyson's poem, 72. 



Earth, the, future of, 197, 198. See 

 Geology. 



Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 4, 5, 8, 12, 

 25, 33 ; his attitude towards sci- 

 ence, 73-78 ; 81 ; his English 

 Traits, 87 ; 90 ; the most unclassi- 

 cal of poets, 98 ; 124 ; Matthew 

 Arnold's criticism of, 129-136, 144, 



145, 148, 151-154 ; an unclassical 

 writer, 130, 131 ; 138, 142 ; his 

 lack of continuity as a writer, 144, 

 145 ; his Representative Men, 145 ; 

 his English Traits, 145, 146 ; his 

 style, 146, 147 ; his inspiring mes- 

 sage, 147, 148 ; flavor of character 

 strongest in his wiiting, 148, 149 ; 

 the spirit of his work, 150 ; as a 

 poet, 151-156 ; his personality, 

 155 ; his heroic note, 155-160 ; his 

 Titmouse, 159 ; his service to his 

 age and country, 162; influence 

 of his writings on the author, 247, 

 248, 252 ; quotations from, 52, 74- 

 77, 87, 112, 130, 140, 144-146, 153, 

 156-159, 217, 249. 



England, 81, 82, 111, 112; some 

 points of difference between her 

 natural history and that of New 

 England and New York, 173-176 ; 

 things and people larger, heavier, 

 stronger, and coarser than in 

 America, 206-209; vehicles in, 

 207. 



English, the, Emerson on, 87 ; Mat- 

 thew Arnold on, 81, 82, 87, 95- 

 97, 99, 100, 117-119. 



English literature, superior in 

 breadth and heartiness to Ameri- 

 can, 209-211. 



Evolution, geology and, 193-198. 



Eye, the spirit of the, 49. 



Fame and achievement, 239-242. 

 Fire, the ancient idea of, 50. 

 Flicker. See High-hole. 

 Franklin, Benjamin, 108, 109, 124, 



156. 

 Friend in solitude, a, 224, 225. 

 Frogs, British, 174. 



Geology, Emerson on, 76 ; evolu- 

 tion and, 193-198. 



Gibbon, Edward, quotation from, 

 179. 



God, the nature of, 227-231. 



Goethe, 57 ; his scientific ideas, 59, 

 60 ; 66, 103, 109, 132, 133, 138 ; 

 quotations from, 43, 47, 88, 149, 

 236 237. 



Goldsmith, Oliver, 239, 240, 242. 



Greece. See Hellenism. 



Grosbeak, pine {Pinicola enuclea- 

 tor), 169. 



Hanger, the, 176. 

 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 69. 

 Heat, as a form of motion, 76. 

 Hebraism, S3, 86, 87, 93. 



