The Last Harvest

by John Burroughs

• 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].