The Last Harvest

by John Burroughs

THE END

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INDEX

• Adaptation, [247], [248].
• Agassiz, Louis, [163].
• Alchemy, [242], [243].
• Alcott, Amos Bronson, in Emerson's Journals, [26-29];
  • on Thoreau, [156].
• Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, [253].
• Alphabet, the, [275], [276].
• American people, the, [252], [253].
• Amiel, Henri Frederic, [4-6];
  • quoted, [223].
• Arnim, Elisabeth von, [34], [35].
• Arnold, Matthew, [213], [250], [260];
  • in Emerson's Journals, [25];
  • on Emerson, [87], [89], [90];
  • his poetry, [209];
  • on poetry, [212].
• Art, recent "isms" in, [278], [279].
• Audacity, [261].
• Aurora borealis, [140], [141].

• Batavia Kill, [244].
• Beauty, [98-101], [246], [247], [251], [252].
• Beecher, Henry Ward, [232].
• Bent, following one's, [280], [281].
• Benton, Myron, [26].
• Bergson, Henri, his "Creative Evolution," revised estimate of, [264-66];
  • and telepathy, [267], [268].
• Bettina, Goethe's, [34], [35].
• Bittern, pumping, [135].
• Boldness, [261].
• Bouton, Deborah, [244].
• Bryant, William Cullen, his poetry, [203], [204], [222].
• Burns, Robert, [213].
• Burroughs, John, chronic homesickness, [227], [228].

• Cactus, [248].
• Carlyle, Thomas, [34], [35], [43], [47], [97];
  • contrasted with Emerson, [30];
  • correspondence with Emerson, [39], [40], [61], [80], [81];
  • on Webster, [61];
  • as a painter, [76], [77];
  • Emerson's love and admiration for, [79-82];
  • his style, [82].
• Channing, William Ellery, 2d, [138-40];
  • in Emerson's Journals, [9], [29], [30], [142];
  • in Thoreau's Journal, [149].
• City, the, [226], [227].
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, quoted, [276].
• Contrasts, [218-29].
• Country, life in the, [226-28].
• Critic, the professional, [259], [260].
• Criticism, [260].

• D., H., quoted, [277].
• Dana, Richard Henry, his "Two Years before the Mast," [256-58].
• Dargan, Olive Tilford, quoted, [201], [202].
• Darwin, Charles, criticism of his selection theories, [172-89], [193-98];
  • his "Voyage of the Beagle," [189-93];
  • his significance, [198-200].
• Days, memorable, [231].
• Death, thoughts on, [285-88].
• De Vries, Hugo, his mutation theory, [196], [197].
• Discovery, [223-25].
  • Early and late, [230], [231].

• Eating, [77-79].
• Edison, Thomas A., [243], [269].
• Electricity, [231].
• Emerson, Charles, [5].
• Emerson, Dr. Edward W., on Thoreau, [155], [156].
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, [136], [214], [227], [239];
  • Journals of, discussed, [1-85];
  • a new estimate of, [1-4];
  • and social intercourse, [6-8];
  • self-reliance, [8], [31], [32];
  • poet and prophet of the moral ideal, [9-11];
  • his lectures, [11], [12], [64], [65], [162];
  • his supreme test of men, [12], [13], [17];
  • his "Days," [14];
  • his "Humble-Bee," [14];
  • "Each and All," [15];
  • "Two Rivers," [15], [16];
  • on Poe, [16];
  • on Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," [17];
  • as a reader and a writer, [17], [18];
  • his main interests, [18];
  • on Jesus as a Representative Man, [20];
  • on Thoreau, [22], [23], [141], [156], [157];
  • and John Muir, [23], [24];
  • alertness, [24];
  • on Matthew Arnold, [25];
  • on Lowell, [25], [26];
  • on Alcott, [26-29];
  • on Father Taylor, [28], [29];
  • occupied with the future, [30];
  • his "Song of Nature," [30], [31];
  • near and far, past and present, [31], [32];
  • and human sympathy, [32], [33], [38], [39];
  • "Representative Men," [33];
  • attitude towards Whitman, [34], [253];
  • literary estimates, [34], [35];
  • on Wordsworth, [36];
  • correspondence with Carlyle, [39], [40];
  • love of nature, [41-43];
  • his book "Nature," [41], [43], [88], [89], [230];
  • his "May-Day," [43];
  • feeling for profanity and racy speech, [44-48];
  • humor, [45-48];
  • thoughts about God, [48-52];
  • attitude towards science, [52-60];
  • on Webster, [60-63];
  • religion, [63], [64];
  • self-criticism, [65-67];
  • "Terminus," [67];
  • catholicity, [67-70];
  • on the Bible, [70];
  • his selection of words, [70], [71];
  • ideas but no doctrines, [71], [72];
  • his limitations, [73-75];
  • and Hawthorne, [73-75];
  • a painter of ideas, [76], [77];
  • on eating and the artist, [77];
  • love and admiration for Carlyle, [79-82];
  • hungered for the quintessence of things, [84];
  • the last result of Puritanism, [85];
  • an estimate of, [86-92];
  • attitude towards poverty, [89];
  • weak in logic, [91];
  • passion for analogy, [92];
  • false notes in rhetoric, [92-94];
  • speaking with authority, [95];
  • at the Holmes breakfast, [95], [96];
  • his face, [96];
  • criticisms of, [96-101];
  • on beauty, [98], [99];
  • last words on, [102];
  • compared with Thoreau, [126];
  • intercourse with Thoreau, [156-58];
  • incident related by Thoreau, [158];
  • on Walter Scott, [216];
  • on oratory, [232];
  • a New England Thomas à Kempis, [261];
  • old age, [284], [285].
• Esopus, N. Y., [244].
• Ethical standards, [233].
• Everett, Edward, [223].
• Evolution, and the Darwinian theory, [174-89], [193-98];
  • chance in, [175-81];
  • the mutation theory, [196], [197];
  • Bergson reread, [264-66];
  • evolution of the doctrine, [279], [280].

• Farm, the home, [227], [228].
• Fist, the, [220], [221].
• Flagg, Wilson, Thoreau on, [165], [166].
• Flattery, [221], [222].
• Flowers, fadeless, [231].
• Fort Myers, [243].
• Fox, [135], [136].
• Fuller, Margaret, [7].

• Genius, and talent, [222], [223].
• Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, [280].
• Germans, the, [3], [4].
• Gilchrist, Anne, on Emerson, [88].
• God, Emerson's idea of, [48-52];
  • Nature's, [233], [234].
• Goethe, [98].
• Gray, Eri, [244].
• Gray, Thomas, his "Elegy written in a Country Church-yard," [216].
• Grossmont, Cal., [240].

• H. D., quoted, [277].
• Hawaiian Islands, [236].
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, and Emerson, [73-75].
• Hearn, Lafcadio, quoted, [202].
• Heat, [246].
• Hermits, [244].
• Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, [253].
• History, the grand movements of, [249].
• Homesickness, [227-29].
• Howells, William Dean, [227];
  • an estimate, [262], [263].

• Insects, hum of, [244], [245].
• Invention, [223-26].

• James, Henry, his hypersensitiveness, [255], [256].
• James, William, quoted, [234].
• Journals, [4], [5].
• Juvenal, quoted, [242].

• Keator, Ike, [244].
• Kepler, Johann, quoted, [254].
• Kidd, Benjamin, his "Social Evolution," [270].
• Kingsley, Charles, a parable of, [189];
  • and Newman, [261].
• Knowledge, the Tree of, [248].

• Lamarck, [280].
• Landor, Walter Savage, Emerson and, [34], [35], [43].
• Life, the result of a system of checks and counter-checks, [236], [237].
• Lincoln, Abraham, [220], [221], [223].
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, in Emerson's Journals, [25].
• Loveman, Robert, his poetry, [204], [205];
  • quoted, [204], [205].
• Lowell, James Russell, in Emerson's Journals, [25];
  • criticism of Thoreau, [104-11];
  • love of books and of nature, [110], [111];
  • possessed talent but not genius, [223];
  • and Whitman, [253].

• McCarthy, John Russell, his poems, [204], [208], [223];
  • quoted, [214], [215], [223].
• Masefield, John, [208].
• Maui, [236].
• Meteoric men, [231], [232], [270-72].
• Milton, John, "Paradise Lost," [260];
  • quoted, [260].
• Montaigne, [8].
• Moody, William Vaughn, his poetry, [204-07];
  • quoted, [207].
• Morgan, Thomas Hunt, on Darwin, [200].
• Movements, in inert matter, [245].
• Muir, John, [23].
• Mutation theory, [196], [197].

• Natural history, and ethical and poetic values, [54-56].
• Natural selection, criticism of the theory, [178-89], [193-98].
• Newspapers, [272-74].
• "Noa Noa," [278].

• Old age, the psychology of, [281-85].
• Oratory, [232], [233].
• Osborn, Henry Fairfield, on chance in evolution, [175].

• Palm and fist, [220], [221].
• Pascal, Blaise, quoted, [233].
• Permanent, and transient, [218], [219].
• Phillips, Stephen, [270].
• Phillips, Wendell, [222], [232];
  • quoted, [221].
• Poe, Edgar Allan, [203];
  • Emerson on, [16], [74];
  • his poetry, [209-11].
• Poets, do not efface one another, [250], [251].
• Poetry, only the best significant, [201];
  • a discussion of, [201-17];
  • B.'s own, [203];
  • and philosophy, [203], [204], [207-09], [260];
  • not sweetened prose put up in verse form, [267];
  • red revolution in, [276-78].
• Pope, Alexander, [201].
• Positive and negative, [219], [220].
• Power, mankind drunk with, [248], [249].
• Praise, and flattery, [221], [222].
• Prayer, [233].

• Quotations, a book of, [261], [262].

• Rain, creative function of, [236].
• Rainbow, the, [137], [138].
• Rashness, [261].
• Reds of literature and art, the, [276-79].
• Reed, Sampson, [34], [35].
• Rhyme, [267].
• Ripley, Rev. Dr. Ezra, [45], [46].
• Robertson, Frederick William, [232].
• Rochefoucauld, quoted, [284].
• Roosevelt, Theodore, [220], [259], [272].
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, [179].

• Sandburg, Carl, quoted, [276], [277].
• Santayana, George, quoted, [260].
• Scott, Sir Walter, his poems, [216].
• Sea, the, [218].
• Sect, a queer, [243].
• Sexes, the, [238-40].
• Shakespeare, William, quoted, [242].
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, [74].
• Sidney, Sir Philip, quoted, [267].
• Smith, Alexander, [270].
• Snake, mechanism for crushing eggs, [196].
• Snow, [252].
• Spanish-American War, [206].
• Spencer, Herbert, [280].
• Spiritualism, [267-69].
• Stanton, Edwin M., [221].
• Stedman, Edmund Clarence, [253].
• Style, [81-84], [256].
• Sublime, the, [251].
• Swift, Jonathan, [93], [267];
  • quoted, [223].
• Swinburne, Algernon Charles, [209], [254].

• Talent, and genius, [222], [223].
• Taylor, Edward T., [28], [29], [85].
• Telepathy, [267-69].
• Tennyson, Alfred, [41], [209], [250];
  • and Whitman, [254].
• Theories, absurd, [242], [243].
• Thomas à Kempis, [261];
  • quoted, [261].
• Thomson, J. Arthur, [96].
• Thoreau, Henry D., Journal of, [4], [5];
  • in Emerson's Journals, [20], [29];
  • compared with Emerson, [20-22];
  • his "Walden," [21];
  • "The Maine Woods," [21], [22];
  • "Cape Cod," [22];
  • Emerson on, [22], [23];
  • false notes in rhetoric, [93];
  • does not grow stale, [103];
  • ancestry, [104];
  • Lowell's criticism of, [104-11];
  • industry, [106];
  • philosophy and life, [108];
  • accomplishment, [109], [110];
  • his "Walden," [110], [143], [147];
  • humor, [110];
  • approving of Whitman, [111], [112];
  • as a nature writer, [112-20];
  • his Journal quoted and criticized, [113], [128], [134-37], [139-61], [163-65], [169], [170];
  • "Walden" quoted, [114-19], [137], [143], [146], [147];
  • travels, [119], [120];
  • uniqueness, [120], [121];
  • and science, [122];
  • individualism, [122], [123];
  • an extremist, [123], [124];
  • and civilization, [124], [125];
  • compared with Emerson, [126];
  • as a walker, [127-32];
  • his "Walking," [127-29];
  • his natural-history lore, [133-41];
  • faults as a writer, [141-46];
  • love of writing, [150];
  • literary activity, [153-55];
  • personality, [155-59];
  • and the Civil War, [159], [160];
  • and John Brown, [160];
  • inconsistencies, [160-62], [166];
  • his "Life without Principle," [162];
  • idealism, [162-68];
  • manual labor, [163-65];
  • moralizing on Bill Wheeler, [167], [168];
  • and human emotions, [168];
  • and young women, [168], [169];
  • as a philosopher, [169], [170];
  • merits as a man and a writer, [170], [171];
  • quoted, [242].
• Time, [241], [242].
• Timeliness, [230], [231].
• Torrey, Bradford, [134], [163].
• Town and country, [226-28].
• Transient, and permanent, [218], [219].
• Truth, [234], [235], [247].

• Verse, free, [276-78].
• Very, Jones, in Emerson's Journals, [9], [25];
  • Emerson's high opinion of, [35].
• "Vestiges of Creation," [280].
• Views, from mountain-tops, [240], [241].
• Virgil, quoted, [242].

• Walking, [127-32].
• Warbler, night, Thoreau's, [136].
• Wealth, [237], [238].
• Webster, Daniel, Emerson on, [60-63];
  • Carlyle on, [61].
• Weismann, August, [178].
• Wells, Dr. W. C., [280].
• Whitman, Walt, [94], [222], [227], [253], [278];
  • Emerson on "Leaves of Grass," [17];
  • in Emerson's Journals, [25];
  • Emerson's attitude towards, [34];
  • receives "May-Day" from Emerson, [43];
  • quoted, [100], [179], [202], [212], [250], [251], [254], [285];
  • Thoreau's approval of, [111], [112];
  • his philosophy, [208], [209];
  • as a criterion, [253], [254];
  • his faith in himself, [254].
• Whittier, John G., [92], [93];
  • and Whitman, [253].
• Wilkinson, Garth, [35].
• Wilson, Woodrow, [221], [232], [271].
• Winter, William, [253].
• Women, [238-40].
• Words, and style, [83], [84].
• Wordsworth, William, [216], [250], [251];
  • Emerson's estimate of, [36];
  • quoted, [100], [218];
  • a poet-walker, [130], [131];
  • on poetry and philosophy, [203];
  • great only at rare intervals, [212], [213].
• Wren, cactus, [248].

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