The Last Harvest

by John Burroughs

• 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].