- Abélard, 166
- Abraham, influence on posterity, 16
- Abundant Life, 29
- Æschylus, 198
- Agassiz, 102, 237
- Aristotle, 124
- Arkwright, 99
- Arnold, 135, 216, 292
- Thos., 164
- Aspirations and Ideals, 53
- number and kind, 61
- power to lift life, 58
- the use of, 63
- rebuke lower life, 66
- enemies of, 70
- Babbage, 287
- Bancroft, Geo., 10
- Beatrice, 44
- Beecher, 19, 95, 134, 142, 188, 258
- Bible, 32, 98, 142, 164, 255
- Body, a thinking machine, 80
- delicacy of sensation, 80
- evolution, 81
- its needs as stimuli, 88
- channel of knowledges, 88
- system of moral registration, 92
- Books and reading, 233
- increase of power of vision, 238
- show men at their best, 239
- tools for the mind, 240
- multiply brain forces, 242
- preserve the spirit of great men, 243
- give information, 246
- show unity of progress, 249
- choice of books, 250
- Brooks, Phillips, 44, 254
- Brown, John, 58
- Browning, Mrs., 248
- Bulwer Lytton, 135
- Bunyan, 114
- Burns, 158, 294
- Byron, 48, 188, 198, 250
- Cadmus, 16
- Caird, 84
- Capital, original, 13
- Carlyle, 76, 214, 234, 239, 255
- Castelar, 40
- Channing, 192, 225, 234
- Character, 31, 44
- defined, 34
- materials of, 34
- Charles IX., 203
- Clay, 154, 262
- Climate, effect on race, 16
- Coleridge, 47, 132, 200, 293
- Columbus, 56, 152
- Confucius, 32
- Conscience and Character, 187
- working of conscience, 191, 201
- uses and functions, 199
- standard, 199
- relation to judgment, 200
- influence on memory, 201
- in daily life, 202
- commercial, 205
- emotional, 208
- to the past, 209
- Contrasts and extremes, teachers, 47
- Cooper, Peter, 177
- Cranmer, 145
- Cromwell, 39, 40, 100
- Curtis, Geo. Wm., 23
- Dana, 84
- Dante, 21, 78, 129, 150, 165, 198, 215, 312, 318
- David, 48, 165
- Death, 95
- Demosthenes, 198
- De Tocqueville, 126
- Dickens, 106
- Distribution of ability in U.S., 22
- Doré, 124
- Douglass, Frederick, 223
- Dreams, 64
- Drummond, 82, 84
- Dwight's dictum, 15
- Edison, 169, 304
- Elements of worth in individual, 9
- Eliot, Geo., 178, 196, 222
- Emerson, 13, 31, 34, 42, 98, 103, 122, 150, 164
- Enthusiasm, 168
- Epictetus, 174
- Evolution, 82
- External world a teacher, 37
- Faraday, 248
- Fiske, 94
- Friendship, 163
- secret of eminence, 173
- refining, 178
- Froude, 172
- Garibaldi, 171, 184
- Gladstone, 43, 69
- Göethe, 151
- Grant, 184
- Greeley, 33
- Guttenberg printing press, 82
- Hamilton, 133, 201
- Handel, 153
- Harrison, Frederic, 234, 250, 314
- Hawthorne, 107
- Health, 75
- Helps, Arthur, 253
- Heredity, 130
- Herod, 189
- Heroes raised up to teach men, 58, 59
- Hoe, printing press, 82
- Holland, J.G., 23
- Holmes, O.W., 13
- Homer, 60, 312
- Hugo, 193
- Huss, 145, 150
- Huxley, 76
- Ideals, teachers, 49
- Ignorance, 19, 31
- Imagination, 141
- defined, 147
- sustains men, 149
- place in science and invention, 157
- mechanics, 152
- helps character, 156
- abuse of, 157
- lifts above misfortune, 159
- reveals God, 160
- Integrity, 27
- Iron, value of raw and manufactured, 20
- Jacob's vision, 70, 166
- Jesus, 14, 29, 30, 31, 40, 51, 59, 115, 118, 183, 189, 210, 215, 271, 309, 318, 319
- John, 14
- Johnson, 47, 166
- Jones, Sir Wm., 304
- Judas Iscariot, 135
- Keats, 106
- King, Starr, 312
- Knowledge, 20
- Kossuth, 184
- Lamartine, 34
- Lamb, 47, 166, 244
- Lecky, 45
- Lee, inventor of loom, 47
- Lincoln, 34, 41, 169, 219, 284, 312
- Livingstone, 58, 78, 236, 241
- Living with men, 257
- the largest subject, 259
- training necessary, 262
- the most important act, 264
- the most difficult, 266
- aim and end of life, 274
- test of manhood, 275
- Locke, 122
- Lodge's study of distribution of ability, 22
- Longfellow, 129, 252
- Lowell, 31, 98, 142, 312
- Lubbock's inquiry of Indian chief, 16, 175
- Luther, 40, 41, 58, 78, 100, 171
- Macaulay, 132, 262
- Making the most of one's self, 299
- self-care and self-love, 301
- debt of strength to weakness, 305
- examples from history, 309
- examples from great men, 309
- duty of the nation, 316
- teaching of Christ, 318
- Man a double creature, 85
- Mann, Horace, 17
- Massachusetts, education, 22
- McCosh, 84
- Michael Angelo, 118, 149, 214
- Mill, John Stuart, 12, 25
- Millais, Martyr, 58
- Millet's Angelus, 20
- Milton, 34, 56, 79, 114, 129, 153, 167, 174, 198, 234, 312
- Mind and the duty of right thinking, 97
- its wonderfulness, 101
- its fruitfulness, 103
- determines character, 114
- Misfits in life, 13
- Mivart, 116
- Monotony, a teacher, 43
- Moral uses of the memory, 121
- basis of civilization, 125
- power, 131
- examples, Macaulay, Niebuhr, etc., 131
- influenced by conscience, 201
- Napoleon, 17, 142, 153, 184
- Newness as a teacher, 42
- Newton, 84, 237, 238
- Nestor, 307
- Niebuhr's memory, 131
- Nilsson, 154
- Northampton, noted men, 23
- Obedience to law, 27
- Oken, 151
- Paganini, 14, 262
- Pasteur, 312
- Paul, 12, 41, 234, 235, 282
- Paupers, plebeian and patrician, 12
- Peter, 135
- Petrarch, 166
- Phillips, 135, 170, 217, 307
- Phidias, 79, 125
- Phocion, 34
- Physical basis of character, 74
- Pitt, 135
- Plato, 13, 163, 183, 189, 214, 306
- Pliny, 70
- Proctor, 103
- Ptolemy, 45
- Pythagoras, 144
- Racial elements, 15
- Rameses, 77
- Raphael, 51
- Rasselas, 47
- Responsibility a teacher, 46
- Revelators of character, 279
- the face, 283
- instances, 285
- body, 285
- habits and unconscious desires, 292
- power of pure character, 297
- Richter, 121
- Rosetti, 121
- Ruskin, 41, 43, 255, 258
- Savonarola, 41, 171,191
- Scaliger's memory, 131
- Schopenhauer, 227
- Schiller, 167, 214
- Scott, 150, 201
- Seneca's memory, 131
- Servetus, 203
- Seward, 188
- Shakespeare, 22, 47, 51, 53, 79, 97, 125, 136, 164, 193, 307
- Silas Marner, 178
- Sin, a personal fact, 87
- Skill in handling men, 25
- Smith, Adam, 12
- Socrates, 14, 57, 92, 130, 165, 190, 214
- Solon, 144
- Sophocles, 198
- Sophroniscus, 147
- Southey, 244
- Spencer, Herbert, 50, 168
- Stanley, 217, 292
- Sterne, 188
- Stupidity of sin, 25
- Strength, physical, 17
- Strikes, 25
- Swing, 97, 164, 212, 258
- Taylor, 212
- Teachers in life external world, 37
- temptation, 39
- newness and zest, 42
- monotony, 44
- responsibility, 46
- contrasts and extremes, 47
- ideals, 49
- Temptation, 39
- Tennyson, 121, 165, 172, 284
- Themistocles, 23
- Theseus, 16
- Tholuck, 51
- Thomson, Sir Wm., 248
- Thompson, 75
- Thoughts affect face's expression, 109
- Thucydides, 199
- Titian, 262
- Trademarks, 281
- Tubman, Harriet, 223
- Tupper, 35
- Tyndall, 101
- Value of man, financial, 11
- Veronese, 113
- Virgil, 110
- Vision hours, 50, 62, 68, 230
- Visions that disturb, 211
- shape great lives, 217
- bring life's best moods, 222
- conquer sin, 223
- secure service for right, 223
- make good men perfect, 224
- for our nation, 225
- Von Humboldt, 189
- Wastes of Society, 9
- through ignorance, 19
- hatred, 28
- Washington, 34, 188
- Watson, Wm., 212
- Watts, 29, 80, 125, 152
- Webster, 153, 192, 220, 256, 262, 284, 312
- White, Pres., 314
- Whitney, Prof., 23
- Wordsworth, 47, 97, 106, 178
- Zeno, 318
- Zacharias, 14