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Emerson, R. W., edits Carlyle's Miscellanies, 93-116; on Wordsworth, 99; an idealist, 115; retires from the ministry, 120; publication of "Nature," 122; essays published, 127; quoted, 142; edits "The Dial," 132; lecture on transcendentalism quoted, 135; lecture on "The Reformer" quoted, 153; address before Divinity College, 200; tribute paid by Tyndall to, 214-243; appreciation of by German readers, 218; published works, 224; works quoted from, 228; letter to his church, 232; judgment of Margaret Fuller, 285; sermon of, reprinted, 363.

Encyclopaedists, influence of, in France, 187.

England, idealists of, 1; metaphysical schools in, 2; transcendentalism in, 78-105.

Epictetus, works of, edited by Higginson, 350.

Excursion, Wordsworth's, quoted, 101.

Felton, Prof. C. C., translates Menzel, 58; edits Menzel's German literature, 116.

Fichte, Johann Gotlieb, treatises of, 28; effect of Kant's system upon, 28; outline of his system of reasoning, 31-40; the idealists of New England his followers, 46; few copies of his works found in the United States, 116.

Fiske, John, cosmic philosophy quoted, 211.

Foreign Review, contains article on Novalis, 52.

Fourierism not welcomed by transcendentalists, 156.

France, philosophy in, 60; transcendentalism in, 105; skepticism in, 189.

Francis, Convers; apostle of transcendentalism, 353.

Franck, Adolphe, explains the Jewish Kabbala, 71.

Frederick the Great, court of, 187.

Frothingham, Dr. N. L., student of German literature, 47.

Fuller, Margaret, article on Goethe, 57; translates from the German, 116; edits "The Dial," 132; Women in the 19th Century quoted, 177-181; memoirs of, published, 284; judgment of, by Emerson, 285; on metaphysics and religion, 286; as a critic, 287; edits "The Dial," 289; biographical account of, 293; writings of, 358.

Furness, W. H., maintains belief in the miracles, 202.

Galileo, experiments of, 8.

Greaves, James Pierrepont, founds the Alcott School near London, 267; letter of, 267.

Grimm, Herman, essay on R. W. Emerson, 218.

Grote, opinion on moral intuition, 216.

German Lyrics, translation by Chas. Brooks, 116.

Germany, transcendentalism in, 14-105; philosophy of, 60; under the influence of idealism, 186.

Gibbon, his history assailed by the church, 185.

Goethe, appreciation of, in New England, 57.

Hamilton, Sir William, Mill's criticism of, 207.

Harbinger, The, started in 1845, 327; list of contributors to, 329.

Haureau writes on philosophy of the middle ages, 61.

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