Part 17

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 number and kind, 61 power to lift life, 58 the use of, 63 rebuke lower life, 66 enemies of, 70

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 delicacy of sensation, 80 evolution, 81 its needs as stimuli, 88 channel of knowledges, 88 system of moral registration, 92

Books and reading, 233 increase of power of vision, 238 show men at their best, 239 tools for the mind, 240 multiply brain forces, 242 preserve the spirit of great men, 243 give information, 246 show unity of progress, 249 choice of books, 250

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