Michael Angelo: 
    allusions, 73, 75;
    on external beauty, 99;
    course, 260;
    filled with God, 284;
    on immortality, 290;
    times mentioned, 382.

  Middlesex Agricultural Association, 235. 
    (See Agriculture, Emerson’s Essays.)

  Middlesex Association, Emerson admitted, 53.

  Miller’s Retrospect, 34.

  Milton, John: 
    influence in New England, 16;
    quotation, 24;
    essay, 73, 75;
    compared with Emerson, 76, 77;
    Lycidas, 178;
    supposed speech, 220;
    diet, 270, 271;
    poetic rank, 281;
    Arnold’s citation, Logic, Rhetoric, 315;
    popularity, 316;
    quoted, 324;
    tin pans, 325;
    inventor of harmonies, 328;
    Lycidas, 333;
    Comus, 338;
    times mentioned, 382;
    precursor, quotation, 415.

  Miracles: 
    false impression, 121, 122;
    and idealism, 146;
    theories, 191;
    St. Januarius, 217;
    objections, 244. 
    (See Bible, Christ, Religion, etc.)

  Modena, Italy, Emerson’s visit, 63.

  Monadnoc, Mount, 70.

  Montaigne: 
    want of religion, 300;
    great authority, 380;
    times quoted, 382.

  Montesquieu, on immortality, 291.

  Monthly Anthology: 
    Wm. Emerson’s connection, 13, 26;
    precursor of North American Review, 28, 29;
    character, 30, 31;
    Quincy’s tribute, 31;
    Society formed, 32;
    career, 33;
    compared with The Dial, 160.

  Moody Family, of York, Me., 8,10.

  Morals, in Plutarch, 301.

  Morison, John Hopkins, on Emerson’s preaching, 67.

  Mormons, 264, 268.

  Mother-wit, a favorite expression, 404, 405.

  Motley, John Lothrop, 33, 223.

  Mount Auburn, strolls, 40.

  Movement, party of the, 147.

  Munroe & Co., publishers, 81.

  Music: 
    church, 306;
    inaptitude for, 361;
    great composers, 401.

  Musketaquid River, 22, 70, 71.

  Mysticism: 
    unintelligible, 390;
    Emerson’s, 396.

  Napoleon: 
    allusion, 197;
    times mentioned, 382.

  Napoleon III., 225.

  Nation, The, Emerson’s interest in, 348.

  Native Bias, 288.

  Nature: 
    in undress, 72;
    solicitations, 110;
    not truly studied, 135;
    great men, 199;
    tortured, 402. 
    (See Emerson’s Books, Emerson’s Essays, etc.)

  Negations, to be shunned, 285.

  New Bedford, Mass., Emerson’s preaching, 52, 67.

  Newbury, Mass., Edward Emerson’s deaconship, 8.