Index
In this Index, endnotes are keyed to page and endnote number. Typically, numbered endnotes identify the full name of persons, the authors and titles of works of prose, dramatic writing, or poetry, and the significance of major events the first time they occur in Emerson’s writings printed in this volume or in the endnotes.
Aberdeen, Lord. See George Hamilton-Gordon
Abolition, 130, 135, 173, 265–291, 350–366, 381–387, 440–447, 455–456, 509
Adam, 68
Adams, Grizzly, 494, 497n42
Adams, John, 134, 149n11, 361, 485
Adams, John Couch, 293, 309n10
Adams, John Quincy, 290nn35–36, 421
Adrastia, Law of. See Plato
Aeschylus, 221n6, 244, 462; Agamemnon, 204, 221n6; Eumenides, 249n33; The Libation Bearers, 413, 429n37; The Suppliants, 429n37
Æolus, 38, 69n4
Aesop, 195, 200n17, 216
Africa, 269, 277, 285, 287, 407, 432
Africans, 265–291, 440, 447n2, 505
African shadow-catchers, 267, 288n3
Agamemnon, 179n7
Agassiz, Louis, 83, 90n15, 402n6, 491
Agriculture, 50
Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius, 216, 224n47
Aiken, John, 32n19
Airy, Sir George Biddell, 293, 309n10
Alabama, 383
Aladdin’s lamp, 196, 200n18
Alaric (king of the Visigoths), 416, 430n43
Alaska Purchase, 533–534n24
Alcott, Amos Bronson, xxix, 72–73n65, 199n2, 264n35, 468–469n12
Alexander II (czar), 522, 533–534n24
Alexander the Great, xix, 70n16
Alexandrian stanza, 133
Alfieri, Count Vittorio, 309n1
Alfonso the Wise, 256, 263n20
Alfred the Great (of England), 100, 108n13, 136, 249n47, 303, 331, 356, 358
Algiers, 15, 99, 477, 479n12
Ali, Mehemet, 519, 533n13
Alleghanies, the, 336
All Flows. See Ebb and flow
Allston, Washington, 149n4; “The Paint King,” 263n26; “To the Author of ‘The Diary of an Ennuyée,’” 149n4
Alphonso of Castille. See Alfonso the Wise
Alpine tunnels, 519, 532–533n12
Alternate generation, 407, 427n11
Alternation. See Ebb and flow
America (schooner), 348n2
America, 116, 196, 210, 218, 243, 252, 287, 316, 330–347, 350–366, 370, 375, 383, 405, 410, 411, 441, 465, 472–478, 481, 493, 494, 508, 519, 525, 528
American Anti-Slavery Society, 273
American civilization, 432–450
American Colonization Society, 270, 289n16
American government, 279–282, 350–366, 438–447, 472–478
American Homestead Act (1862), 472, 478n1
American Liberty, 199, 472–478
American Lyceum, 184, 187, 190–192
American oratory, 186–187
American Parnassus, 188
American Revolution, 385
Americans, the, 144–146 passim, 183, 191, 194, 197, 421, 423, 440–446, 458; Contrasted to the English, 292–311, 330–349
American spiritual history, 170
American West, 184, 239
America’s Cup, 348n2
Ampère, André-Marie, 88, 90n23
Analogy, 30, 45, 49, 52, 79, 84, 87, 93, 152, 390, 392, 401
Anatomy, 83, 316, 390, 393
Anaxagoras, 87, 90n22, 147, 239
Anaximenes of Miletus, 239, 248n34, 411
Andes Mountains, 133, 222n11
Angelology, 231–232, 247n20
Angennes, Catherine d’ (Marquise de Rambouillet), 373, 380n16
Anglicanism, 1, 508
Anglo-Americans, 330–349
Anglo-Saxons, 84, 192, 345, 520
Animal magnetism, 17, 32n9, 67
Animation, 392
The Annual Register: (1838), 289n27; (1839), 290n28
Annursnuc Hill (Concord), 459, 470n29
Antaeus, 17
Antietam, Battle of, 478n2
Antigua, 272, 289n21
Antinomianism, 141, 150n23, 167, 242
Aphrodite, 69n8
Apollo (Greek god), 116, 200n8, 244, 526
Apollo (sculpture), 356, 365n9
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 223n25
Arabia, 96, 105, 435, 482; desert of, 519, 532–533n12
Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, 16, 32n6, 200n18, 497n44
Arabs, 405
Arago, François, 492, 497n37
Archimedes, 27, 33n26, 306, 307, 521, 529
Arctic Ocean, 533–534n24
Arctic voyagers, 395
Ariosto, Ludovico, 157, 162n9
Aristarchus of Samos, 411, 429n32
Aristophanes, 374, 380n17
Aristotelians, or Aristotelian philosophy, 329n25, 397
Aristotle, 58, 72n48, 72n61, 155, 197, 215, 259, 319, 328n16, 360, 486, 517, 531n2, 526, 534n32; Physics, 223n35; Politics, 464, 471n46
Arkwright, Sir Richard, 485, 495–496n15
Arnim, Elisabeth (Bettina) Brentano von, 231, 247n19; Die Günderode, 247n19
Arrested development. See John Hunter
Art, 21, 35, 38, 39, 43, 53, 64, 74, 85, 94, 95, 99–105 passim, 114, 124, 128, 142, 144–147, 153–154, 166, 173, 193, 196, 202–203, 210, 211, 219, 227, 232–237 passim, 241, 254–255, 259, 276, 284–285, 292, 294, 301, 314, 315, 325, 337, 339, 359, 362, 369, 371, 375, 398, 417, 432–439 passim, 451, 452, 457, 482, 485–491 passim, 517–521 passim, 524, 525, 528
Artemis (Greek goddess), 71–72n41
Ascot, England, 302
Asia, 15, 199, 508
Asia Minor, 276, 525–526
Asimov, Isaac, “Nightfall,” 69n2
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