And man would fain find some divine friend who will lead him unto great personal worth. As if to fulfill man's deepest needs, Jesus Christ enters the earthly scene. He comes to hasten man's step along that pathway that leads from littleness unto largeness. Before our admiring vision the Divine Teacher seems like some sacred husbandman, His garden our earth, good men and great earth's richest fruit. He asks each youth to love and make the most of himself, that later on he may be bread to the hungry, medicine to the wounded, shelter to the weak. He bids each love his own reason, getting wisdom with that eager passion that Hugh Miller had for knowledge. He bids each make the most of friendship, emulating Plato in his love for his noble teacher. He asks each to love industry, emulating Peabody, whose generosity gushed like rivers. He asks each to make the most of courage and self-reliance, emulating Livingstone in self-denying service. He bids each emulate and look up to Jesus Christ, as Dante, midst the pitchy night, looked up toward the star. He bids each move heaven and earth to achieve for himself a worthy manhood. For thus only can earth ever be moved back unto heaven.
INDEX[ToC]
- 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]
- 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]
- Books and reading, [233]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- of friendship, [165]
- Enthusiasm, [168]
- Epictetus, [174]
- Evolution, [82]
- External world a teacher, [37]
- Faraday, [248]
- Fiske, [94]
- Friendship, [163]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- Misfits in life, [13]
- Mivart, [116]
- Monotony, a teacher, [43]
- Moral uses of the memory, [121]
- 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]
- 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]
- Sidney, [111]
- 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]
- 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]
- Von Humboldt, [189]
- Wastes of Society, [9]
- 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]
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