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The Life Radiant

Chapter 14: The World Beautiful
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The text assembles spiritual essays and meditations that urge readers to transfigure everyday experience by recognizing a divine dimension in ordinary events. It argues that anxieties and material entanglements can be overcome through right valuation, generosity, and steadfast faith; it examines the power of vision, prayer, and the exalted moment to open new possibilities; and it surveys the ethereal realm, finer cosmic forces, and the service of love and goodwill. Organized into themed chapters, the work mixes practical counsel, illustrative anecdotes, and contemplative reflection aimed at cultivating serenity, moral beauty, and active compassion.

Faraday, Michael, 338.
Faust, 49.
Fénelon, 302.
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 68.
Field, Cyrus, 116.
Fiske, Dr. John, consummation of organic evolution, 113;
degree of achievement above the level of death, 327.
Flagstaff, 234;
cosmopolitan influence of, 235.
Florence, 251.
Foretelling of the future, 24.
Fort Steele, 249.
"Forum, The," article of Edward Everett Hale in, 79.
Fuller, Margaret, defines social sympathies, 217.

Galilee, 264.
Garden of the Gods, 242.
German, 334.
"Giver of all Good," 320.
Goethe, 198.
Gogol, 126.
Gordon, Rev. Dr. George A., 223.
Grand Cañon of the Colorado, 226, 228, 229, 233, 236.
Greek, 249.
Greeley, Horace, presided at meeting in Cooper Institute, 240;
invited Nathan Cook Meeker to place on "Tribune," 241;
encouraged founding of town, 243, 248;
portrait of, 253.
——, town of, founded by Nathan Cook Meeker, 237, 240;
beautiful situation of, 244;
interest of, 245, 247.
"——, Tribune, The," founding of, 238.

Hale, Rev. Dr. Edward Everett, prediction of, 79, 80;
memory of, 150.
Hall, General, writes of Nathan Cook Meeker, 247.
Hamilton, Gail, 42.
Harris, Dr. William Torrey, 190.
Harvard, 55, 198.
Hayes, Hon. Rutherford B., appoints Nathan Cook Meeker Indian
Commissioner, 236, 247.
Heavenly Vision, 302.
Helbaicy, M. Tessier d', theory of, 135, 136.
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig, 338.
Henley, William Ernest, 355.
Hilty, Carl, his ideas on Happiness, 343.
Himalayas, 233.
Holland, Canon Scott, discussions of, 163;
arraigns modern teachings, 164, 165;
characterizes the ether, 166.
Holmes, Dr. Oliver Wendell, counsel of, 47.
Holy Spirit, the, 280, 331.
"Hope of Religion," 223.
Hugo, Victor, lines of, 273.
"Human Freedom," 55.
"Human Personality," 129, 148.
Humanity, 221.

Indian, the, 247.
Indian Commissioner, 238.
Indiana, 205.
Indians, legislation for, 246, 248, 249, 250.
Isles of Patmos, 226.
Italy, 257.

Jacob's ladder, 298.
James, Prof. William, demonstration of, 55;
depicts power of the Holy Spirit, 331.
Jesus, 277.
Joule, Dr., 338.

Kaiser Wilhelm II., the, 150.
Kelvin, Lord, 263.
Kerchsoff, 337.
Kingsford, Dr. Anna, née Bonus, remarkable mystic writings of, 255;
marriage of, 256;
theories of, 257, 259;
remarkable interpretation of life of, 261.

Lacordaire, Père, 229.
Lanier, Sidney, 65.
Latin, 198.
Leadbeater, C. W., 186.
Leavenworth, Professor, 144.
Lent, 285.
Leverrier, Urbain John Joseph, 84.
"Life Radiant, The," 3, 5, 6, 16, 24, 25. 26, 37, 348.
Lincoln, Abraham 7, 254.
Liverpool, 150.
Lodge, Sir Oliver, 9;
new problems presented, by, 153, 154, 155;
his theories regarding telepathy, 157.
Loeb, Dr., 25.
London, 86, 154, 216.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 292.
Long's Peak, 244.
Lot, 202.
Louis XV., 149.
Lowell Institute, 234.
Lowell, James Russell, 170.
——, John, 234.
—— Observatory, 234.
——, Prof. Percival, his astronomical work, 234, 235.

Maeterlinck, Maurice, the future discussed by, 91, 93, 94, 96;
theories of, 98, 101;
insights of, 193, 207.
Magi, the, 265, 346.
Marconi, Guglielmo, genius of, 5, 116;
system of, 125;
ship detector of, 134;
predictions of, fulfilled, 136.
Marie Antoinette, 149.
Mars, 127, 234.
Massachusetts, diocese of, 54.
——, Bishop of, 54.
Mayer, Julius Robert von, 338.
Meeker, Arvilla Delight, née Smith (Mrs. Nathan Cook Meeker), 249,
250, 252.
——, Nathan Cook, town of Greeley, Colo., founded by, 237;
visions of, 238, 239;
outlines plans, 240;
birth of, 241;
editorial work of, praised by Emerson, 242;
municipal principles of, 243, 244, 245;
appointed commissioner to Centennial Exposition, 246;
"The Greeley Tribune" founded by, 246;
Indian policy of, 246, 247;
difficulties encountered by, 247;
massacre of, 247;
estimation of, 251, 252;
work of, 253;
noble ideals of, 254.
——, Josephine, 248, 249, 250, 252.
Mesozoic age, 229.
Michael Angelo, 228.
Mont Pelée, 48, 50.
Montana, 205.
Morning Star, 204.
Mount Etna, 78.
—— of Transfiguration, 88.
—— of Vision, 365.
Moxom, Rev. Dr. Philip, 223.
Münsterberg, Prof. Hugo, 55.
Musée Cluny, the, 149, 150.
Myers, Frederic, W. H. 140, 148.

Nature, 171.
Naval Observatory, 127.
Neptune, 84.
New England, 213.
New Jersey, 242.
New Jerusalem, 226.
New Testament, 148.
New Year, the, 203, 204, 320.
New York, 240.
"New York Herald," 48, 151.
"—— Mirror," 241.
"—— Tribune," 238.
Niagara, 153, 226, 231.
Nile, 142

Observatory, the Minnesota University, 144.
Ohio, 241.
Orion, 317.
Ostwald, Dr., 334.

Paderewski, Ignace, 340.
Paradise, 63.
"Paradiso," 226.
Paris, 95, 149, 226, 275.
Parkhurst, Rev. Dr., 325, 328.
"Parsival," 265.
Permian, 229.
Phillips, Stephen, 145, 263.
Pierce, Hon. Franklin, 241.
Pike's Peak, 238, 239, 244.
Pope, General, 249.
Powell, Major John W., 231.
Preece, Sir William, 127.
Prentice, George D., 241.
Presbyterian, 169.
Promised Land, 204.
Protestant, 274.
Prudhomme, Sully, 8.
Psychical Research, 141.
Pueblo, 248.
Pyramids, 142, 143.

Quackenbos, Dr. John D., 160, 161, 172.

Reichenbach, Anton Benedict, remarkable experiments of, 135.
Roberts, Professor, electrical work of, 153.
Robinson, Solon, 241.
Rocky Mountains, the, 244.
Röntgen ray, 41, 60, 73.
Royal Gorge, 226.
—— Institute, 81.
—— Society, 12.
—— University of Denmark, 151.
Royce, Prof. Josiah, 32.
Rumford, Count, experiments of, 338.

Saint John, 226.
—— Paul, the two bodies described by, 32;
counsel of, 64;
spiritual things discerned by, 84, 143, 178;
admonitions of, 310, 325, 326;
Cathedral of, 163.
—— Pierre, 48.
—— Sulpice, 275.
San Francisco, 234.
Santa Fé road, 233.
Secretary of War, the, 249.
Shakespeare, 201.
Sherman, Gen. W. T., 249.
Shinumo Altar, 236.
Silver State, the, 254.
Sir Hugo, 222.
Smyth, Rev. Dr. Newman, 66.
Snowy Range, the, 238.
Society of Arts, 124.
Solomon's Temple, 227.
South Platte River, 244.
Southern Cross, 142.
Spencer, Herbert, 204.
Spirit, whisper of the, 305.
State University Observatory, Minnesota, 144.
Stowe, Mrs. Harriet, née Beecher, 213.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred, 87.
Tertiary, 229.
Tesla, Nicola, 116;
discovery of, 122;
human energy discussed by, 188.
Texas, 205.
"The Gleam," 182.
"The Inferno," 226.
"The Country God Forgot," 234.
"The Perfect Way," 255, 256.
"The World Beautiful," 25.
Thompson, Prof. J. J., 9.
Thornburg, Major, 249.
Titanic, 226.
Trinity Church, 54.
Twentieth Century, 198, 264.

Union Colony, 244, 247, 248, 253.
Unitarian, 169.
United States, 42.
Universe, 109.
Unseen, the, 173.
Ursa Major, 317, 318.
Utah, 228.
Utes, the, 247.

Vatican, the, 256.
Vedantic, 332.
Vedder, Elihu, 177.
"Vita Nuova," 185.

Walnut Cañon, 235.
Warren, Rev. Dr. Walpole, 60.
Washington, 127, 246.
Washington Monument, 227.
Watterson, Col. Henry, 241.
Wells, H. G., theories of, on foretelling the future, 81, 83.
West, the, 238.
Western Reserve, the, 241.
Westminster Abbey, 142.
White Mountains, the, 48.
White River, 238, 247, 251, 261.
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 288, 320.
Whyte, Rev. Dr. Alexander, 212.
Wilberforce, Rev. Dr. Basil, Archdeacon of Westminster, 141, 142.
Will of God, 282, 284.

Young, John Russell, 243.

Zuni, 235.


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