Dante: 
    allusion in Anthology, 31;
    rank, 202, 320;
    times mentioned, 382.

  Dartmouth College, oration, 131-135.

  Darwin, Charles, Origin of Species, 105.

  Dawes, Rufus, Boyhood Memories, 44.

  Declaration of Independence, intellectual,
  115. (See American, etc.)

  Delirium, imaginative, easily produced,
  238. (See Intuition.)

  Delia Cruscans, allusion, 152. (See
  Transcendentalism.)

  Delos, allusion, 374.

  Delphic Oracle: 
    of New England, 72;
    illustration, 84.

  Democratic Review, The, on Nature, 103.

  De Profundis, illustrating Carlyle’s spirit, 83.

  De Quincey, Thomas: 
    Emerson’s interview with, 63, 195;
    on originality, 92.

  De Stael, Mme., allusion, 16.

  De Tocqueville, account of Unitarianism, 51. 
  Dewey, Orville, New Bedford ministry, 67.

  Dexter, Lord Timothy, punctuation, 325, 326.

  Dial, The: 
    established, 147, 158;
    editors, 159;
    influence, 160-163;
    death, 164;
    poems, 192;
    old contributors, 221;
    papers, 295;
    intuitions, 394.

  Dial, The (second), in Cincinnati, 239.

  Dickens, Charles: 
    on Father Taylor, 56;
    American Notes, 155.

  Diderot, Denis, essay, 79.

  Diogenes, story, 401. (See Laertius.)

  Disinterestedness, 259.

  Disraeli, Benjamin, the rectorship, 282.

  Dramas, their limitations, 375. (See Shakespeare.)

  Dress, illustration of poetry, 311, 312.

  Dryden, John, quotation, 20, 21.

  Dwight, John S.: 
    in The Dial, 159;
    musical critic, 223.

  East Lexington, Mass., the Unitarian pulpit, 88.

  Economy, its meaning, 142.

  Edinburgh, Scotland: 
    Emerson’s visit and preaching, 64, 65;
    lecture, 195.

  Education: 
    through friendship, 97, 98;
    public questions, 258, 259.

  Edwards, Jonathan: 
    allusions, 16, 51;
    the atmosphere changed, 414. 
    (See Calvinism, Puritanism, Unitarianism, etc.)

  Egotism, a pest, 233.

  Egypt: 
    poetic teaching, 121;
    trip, 271, 272;
    Sphinx, 330. (See Emerson’s Poems,—­Sphinx.)

  Election Sermon, illustration, 112.

  Elizabeth, Queen, verbal heir-loom, 313. (See Raleigh, etc.)

  Ellis, Rufus, minister of the First Church, Boston, 43.

  Eloquence, defined, 285, 286.

  Emerson Family, 3 et seq.