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 INDEX. Plato, 180. Plymouth Church, 348. Plymouth, Mass., 40, 49, 228, 231, 280-282, 287, 353, 364, 440. Poems of Charming, 76, 94, 137, 139, 185, 325, 387, 421 ; of Emerson, 137, 321, 432; of Herbert, 134, 436 ; of Quarles, 128, 134 ; of Ricketson, 394 ; of Sanborn, 463 ; of Thoreau, vii, x, 44, 56, 70, 87, 88, 177, 243, 244, 321, 364; of Whitman, 345. Poet-naturalist, 1, 76. Poetry, English, 77, 134, 136, 183, 283, 306, 323-325 ; Greek, 70, 119 ; of the &quot; Dial,&quot; 44, 70, 137, 147. Poets, x, 31, 110, 136. Polaris, 418. Pole, stirring up with, 365. Polis, Joe (Indian), 339, 362, 379, 391. Polygamy, 353. Pomotis, a fish, 157. Pond, Fairhaven, 31, 278; Long, 313 ; Walden, 31, 34, 68, 145, 149, 153, 158 ; White, 15. Pots of beer, 393. Pots of poor immigrants, 131. Pouts, fish, 151, 153. Poverty, 205, 208, 355. Powers above us, 48, 54, 66, 191, 209, 214, 254. Practice of conformity, 252 ; of fru gality, 205; of manual labor, 74, 205, 219 ; of retirement, 191, 210. Preaching, 231, 256. Preexistence, 215, 223 ; recollections of, 253, 353. Precipice for suicides, 178. &quot; Present &quot; (the periodical), 133, 140, 141. President s messages, 438. Pretenses of society, 213, 274. Probe the earth, 194. Professor, the traveling (Agassiz), j 176. Pronunciation of Latin, 28, 29. Prince of Wales in New England, 433. QITAINTNESS of expression, 28, 59, j, 134, 160, 172, 175, 184, 196, j , 224. Quaker dress, 115; meetings, 116, I, 395. Quakers at Eagleswood, 336, 337 ; at New Bedford, 395, 456; at New York, 115. Quarantine Village, N. Y., 85. Quarles, Francis, 128, 134. Quarterly of the Transcendentalists, 143 ; its fame in England, 187. Quarters of Concord, 2, 15. Quebec, 379. Querulity of reformers, 141. Query by Thoreau, 64 ; another, 185. Questioning to be avoided, 242, 325, 425. Questions of friendship, 38, 41, 65- 67, 104, 206, 308, 425 ; of love, 238- 245 ; of life, 31, 38, 47, 51, 55, 90, 125, 141, 145, 162, 175, 191, 193, 200, 208, 214, 225, 236, 253, 255- 258, 262, 267-269, 292, 333, 370, 439 ; of literature, 32, 35, 44, 50, 71, 112, 127, 183, 188, 195, 203, 207, 287, 321 ; of society, 12, 58, 74, 93, 131, 196, 225, 246, 254-256, 273-275, 350, 371, 400. Quincy, Josiah (H. U. 1790), Pres ident of Harvard University, 10. Quitticus, in Middleborough, 313. Quotations, from Channing, 68, 77, 382, 384, 392, 422, 425 ; Confucius, , 351 ; Daniel, 264 ; Emerson, II, 24, 57, 111, 122, 140, 143, 170, 187, 276, 339 ; Goethe, 202 ; Hor ace, vi, 31 ; Lucretius, x ; Milton, III, 324; Shakespeare, vi; Tho reau, x, 87 ; Virgil, 32. RACE, the aboriginal, 14, 339, 370, . Race characteristics, 179, 268, 276, . Ramsay, Gov., of Minnesota, 451. Rapping of spirits, 233. Ravine, Tuckerman s, 389, 404, 406. Reading, 31, 35, 77, 134, 136, 183, , 352, 438, 441, 442. Rebellion, Southern, 437, 446. &quot; Recline on the Great Spirit,&quot; 213. Recluse habits, 19, 42, 69, 93, 145, , 205, 235, 287, 299, 314, 364. Recollections of early life, x, 2-5, . Regret, 47, 49, 51, 87, 88. Religion, 9, 105, 118, 136, 191, 197, , 235, 257, 293, 348, 456. Religious life, 192, 215. Respectability, 93. Restigouche, in Canada, 380. Review, the Democratic, 59, 119, , 129, 140. &quot; Review, Massachusetts Quar terly,&quot; 172, 188. Review of Carlyle by Emerson, 112, ; of Emerson, in Blackwood, . &quot; Revue des Deux Mondes,&quot; 188.