INDEXToC

• 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
  • of friendship, 165
• 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
  • Sidney, 111
• 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
  • acc. to race, 16
    • thoughts determine, 111
• 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
  • Moltke, 23
  • Rile, 118
  
  
• 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