Fame a holy ambition, 29
Faneuil, Peter, 215
Fathers, the; uprising of 1861, 55
Feeling and sentiment, 142
Forest, a—differing conceptions of, 60
Fourth century, the, 223
France—king of; Marie Antoinette; Carlyle, 63, 64
Friendship an open sesame, 231
Garfield, 158
Genius marred by absence of humble virtues, 207
Gentleness, lack of, 181
God, erroneous conception of, 191
God, man's attitude toward, 65
God, punishments of, 85
God the ground and basis of all hope, 194
God's world a good world, 36
Gough, John B., 144
Great hearts, 134
Greatness an accumulation of little deeds, 202
Grey, Jane, 201
Growth by accretion; from seed, 242
Heart and intellect, 138
Heart and the age of cruelty, 139
Heart transformations, 145
Heroism—the Divine Teacher; Henry Grady; Napier;
Browning; Ruskin, 92-95
Holland, greatness of; William the Silent, 170
Homer's ideal, Helen, 119
Hope and aspiration, functions of, 282
Hope, enemies of, 286
Hope long deferred, 112
Howard; Goodyear; Patteson, 79, 80
Hugo, Victor, 165
Human life, enemies of, 205
Humanity and social sympathy, 100
Industrial law the law of sacrifice, 161
Intelligence, ignorance, 125
Keats, 183
"Keep thou this man", 219
King Saul and the seer, 14
Labor, problem of, 124
Labor, fruition of, 127
Law of violence, the, 270
Life a column of days, 279
Life, problem of, 239
Life's better hours, 233
Lincoln, Abraham, 56
Livingstone, 180
Love, definition of, 264
Love and immortality, 275
Love the fulfillment of all ethical laws, 268
Lowly woman, career of a, 19
Man governed through hope, 280
Man, influence of for good or evil, 13
Man, the great destroyer, 23
Man, a force-producer, 25
Man, unpurposed influence of, 27
Moral retribution, 251
Nature, favors of, 71
Nature, mysterious workings of, 241
New womanhood, the, 98
Nerve and brain force, drain of, 255
"No man careth for my soul", 214
Opportunity, genius of, 220
Orations—American; humble heroes; parental sacrifice;
suffering of ancestors; a tribute to the early dead, 81-84
Patriot, the; scholar, the, 70
Peabody, George, 57
Phocion, patriot and martyr, 170
Pompeii, 229
Progress and civilization, law of, 166
Progress, mainspring of, 261
Prosperity, 230